DW: Doesn't matter what country...governments working a the speed of sloths.
A postcard finally arrived at its destination 121 years after it was originally sent. The Swansea Building Society in Wales announced that the postcard, dated August 3, 1903, was delivered to their Cradock Street location last Friday, an address that once housed Lydia Davis to whom the postcard was addressed.
Henry Darby, the bank's marketing and communications officer, expressed his amazement by saying, "The address is correct, we are still 11 (and 12) Cradock Street, but it's 121 years later than expected. It's wild, actually. A little bit spooky. The stamp itself is King Edward, so he was King from 1901 until 1910, and you could tell straight away from the handwriting and the way it speaks, 'Dearest, I could not', it was very much of the time."
Although much of the postcard's content has faded, the mystery of its delayed delivery intrigued many. A Royal Mail spokeswoman speculated, "It is likely that this postcard was put back into our system rather than being lost in the post for over a century. When an item is in our system, we are under obligation to deliver it to the correct address." The exact reasons behind the postcard's late arrival remain unclear.
Source: UPI