Postcard delivered 72 years late

Sadly the card J.A Achiardi sent to his fiancee in 1937 has been delivered 40 years after Fernande Robéri died

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A POSTCARD that a young man sent to his fiancee has been delivered 72 years after it was posted to a Monaco woman, but arrived 40 years after she died.

The card with an Alpine view was found by postal staff in Monaco on August 25 in the middle of a bundle of mail from the sorting office in Nice.

J.A Achiardi had addressed it to his fiancee, trainee hairdresser Fernande Robéri, on August 11, 1937 from Saint-Etienne-de-Tinée, Alpes-Maritimes.

It had a simple message on the back Bon souvenir.

Ms Robéri died in 1969.

Jean-Luc Delcroix, the director of La Poste in Monaco, said he could only suggest that the card had been stuck behind some furniture in the sorting office and then put back into the post once it had been found.

Now the card is being delivered to Ms Robéri’s son.

Photo: Photothèque Groupe La Poste

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