Ohio Woman Receives Letter From Sister In Mail 23 Years After It Was Mailed

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Cincinnati, Ohio -- A Colerain Township woman said she received a letter in the mail that took more than two decades to get there."I was having coffee this morning, and my daughter brought the mail in," Jean Blankenship said.Blankenship sliced open a letter Wednesday from her sister in Sacramento, but scrolling through the handwritten note, Jean said she grew confused."She was talking about my one other sister who's no longer alive," Blankenship said. "I thought, 'How can she say that? She must be going nuts!'"That's when she glanced at the date at the end of the letter."It was dated Feb. 25, 1987," Blankenship said.That's when Jean called her sister, telling her she got her letter from 1987."Can you imagine? Waited 23 years. We both could have been dead," Blankenship joked with her sister.The post office said it had some theories about what could have happened: the letter was caught in a piece of machinery that's now being disassembled, it was delivered to another household and just now dropped back into the mail for proper delivery or it was left in a discarded mailbag."If it had been electronic mail it would have just been gone, but with the post office the letter was eventually recovered and delivered," said USPS David Walton spokespersonMeanwhile, the Cincinnati postmaster said this kind of late delivery is so rare, he's only heard of this happening one other time in his 33 years in Cincinnati.