Postcard Sent From the U.N. Is Returned to Sender After 72 Years NYT | Top Stories By: Hannah Ziegler 14 September 2025 at 23:36 Alan Ball sent the postcard to his family during the summer of 1953. Last week, it arrived at his home in Idaho. © Alan BallThis postcard, mailed in 1953, unexpectedly surfaced at a post office in Illinois. Postal officials believe it had spent most of the past seven decades lost in the United Nations and had only been mailed recently.
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