Genealogists help return lost postcard to sender 72 years later
- Posted on September 21, 2025
- By CNN
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Genealogists help return lost postcard to sender 72 years later

A postcard mailed from the United Nations headquarters in New York arrived at the post office in Ottawa, Illinois, in August. It would have been unremarkable, except it had been postmarked at 8 p.m. — on July 17, 1953.