[Dx-qsl] Pse qsl via buro ;)

Thu Apr 13 19:06:51 EDT 2006

>From Yahoo this after noon ....

DELAND, Fla. - Talk about lost in the mail. A QSL card sent from a Stetson
home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to
sender" stamp - and its 1956 postmark. 
Mack McCormick, 59, did not send the postcard, but he lives in the home
where the postcard originated. It was delivered to his mailbox Monday.
"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years," McCormick
said. "It's not wrinkled or anything."
He used the Internet to track down the author of the note, George Hitz, 64,
who now lives in Sudbury, Mass.
"I had to keep asking questions and pull it out of Mack," Hitz said. "It
wasn't obvious to me that he lived in our house."
Hitz, a former ham radio operator included his age on the postcard and
information about a radio contact he made in February 1956 with someone he
called "Chief Operator Dave." No street address was included for Dave, which
may explain why the postcard was not delivered, postal officials said.
It is unlikely the postcard spent the last 50 years in a DeLand post office,
said Joseph Breckenridge, U.S. Postal Service spokesman for Central and
North Florida. The local post office has not been in the same location that
long, and maintenance workers would have found it if it was trapped in a
sorting machine, Breckenridge said.
The card may have been sent to California and was rediscovered recently by
someone who dropped it back in the mail, Breckenridge said.
Hitz said he is not interested in getting his old postcard back. McCormick
plans to frame it.