Snail mail spans decades

A woman holidaying in New Jersey popped a postcard into the mail and it has just arrived at her mother's house in Pennsylvania - 37 years later.

Dorothy Orth, of Seelyville in north-eastern Pennsylvania, baffled her daughter when she called to thank her for the card. "What card?" Janet Richards, of Port Jervis, New York, asked.

When her mother said it was from Asbury Park, New Jersey, she remembered. "I sent that postcard in August 1967, when my husband, Larry, and I were on our fifth wedding anniversary," she said.