On This Day, 11 December...Alan Bailey's Christmas cards to his three children in Great Budworth, Cheshire, arrived in 1982. He had posted them in Warrington on 27 November 1974. They had taken eight years to travel 12 miles. Perhaps the slowest Christmas card ever arrived at the house of Elsa Johansson near Jonaker in Sweden, 82 years after it was posted on 23 December 1903.
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