Australia Post delivers postcard 50 yrs late

A postcard was delivered to its destination in Australia 50 years after it was sent, prompting the country's postal service to tender an apology.

The 'slightly faded' postcard, dated 1966, was found by an Adelaide couple, Tim and Claire Duffy, in their letterbox last Monday.

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The card, which depicted a waterfront in Tahiti, had a stamp worth 13 Francs and was found by Tim Duffy underneath a water bill while he was going through his mails at his Wattle Park residence in Adelaide, local media reported.

Duffy said: “It took a while to realise it was an old one. There's no way it could have been stored in there (the home's original letterbox) that long; I would say the postman has put it in there.”

The postcard was sent by a person named 'Chris' from Papeete, located on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, in 1966 to an Adelaide resident Robert Giorgio and described how Chris was enjoying himself greatly despite very humid weather.

Tim and Claire Duffy, who bought the home in 2015, believe that it was built by an Italian Robert Giorgio in 1963 and the card was addressed to him.

It was thought the card had been printed in the 1950s and showed an idyllic waterfront scene with bush surrounding colonial-era buildings.

Expressing regret over the late delivery of the postcard, an Australian Post spokesman said, "It is clear something went wrong 50 years ago after the postcard was posted in French Polynesia, and we apologise for the inconvenience."