Christmas card travels for 61 years

[Fuji Vice]

Source: QMI Agency

A couple of Texas friends may have invented re-gifting more than 60 years ago.

Acker Hanks, of New Waverly, mailed his next-door neighbour Lee Kelley a Christmas card back in 1950. Kelley mailed it back the following year. And it has gone back and forth ever since, reported the Tyler Morning Telegraph.

Hanks has only ever lived in the area, but Kelley criss-crossed the country as a result of his job with the U.S. Forestry Service.

The card has been to Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., among others. In recent years, it came from Wisconsin, where Kelley had decided to retire. He has since passed, but his widow continued the tradition with Hanks - until this year, when it came back to Hanks in the return mail.

Inside the card is a list of where the card was sent each year. Hanks now plans to have the letter framed, he told the Telegraph.

"It was just a close friendship," he said. "I always have looked forward to getting the card ... I don't think it'll ever leave me now."

I thought this was a pretty interesting story in the sense that I cannot believe they managed to keep it up for more than 60 years. That's pretty cool and definitely something neat to tell your grandchildren about.

 

[TroyTheAverage]

That is awesome. Funny how a silly thing like that can become a tradition that is carried on for that long. To bad there weren't pictures of the card. I would love to see it after 50+ years.