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When I was in Cancun last month, I bought some postcards and three stamps my first day there and mailed a couple out the next day by giving them to the clerks at the front desk of the hotel. The day before we left, I still had an unused stamp, so I just wrote my home address on one of the cards, left the message area blank, and gave it to the desk clerks to mail out.

Well, I came home, a couple weeks went by, and the people I sent postcards to still hadn’t received them. I had forgotten all about the fact that I had sent one to myself until just a few days ago.

I went out to the mailbox when I got home after work yesterday, and I’ll be damned if that postcard wasn’t in there.

Date mailed: February 14th
Date received: March 17th

I guess it’s sort of funny that it was both mailed and received on a holiday, but a month to mail a postcard? Good lord.