Brittany Keech from Belding, Michigan, received a tattered postcard in the mail on Sept. 8 — and it was postmarked Oct. 29, 1920. The 100-year-old letter, which arrived out of the blue, was addressed to a Roy McQueen and adorned with a sign of the times: a one-cent George Washington stamp.

Keech, who has lived at her house for two years, is no stranger to receiving mail for previous occupants but has never received anything like the dated postcard.

"I was honestly surprised,” she told NBC News. “I didn't think I could read it first, but I knew that it looks old. So then when I started looking at it closer, when I had more than half a second to look at it, I noticed that it was a really old letter dated back to 1920. It was addressed to my address, but it wasn't addressed to me."


It's not every day that a 100-year-old letter shows up in the mail.