Minnesota Woman Receives Letter 68 Years After It Was Posted From Denmark

A woman in Minnesota has received a letter 68 years after it was posted from Denmark.

The letter, sent from the Danish capital Copenhagen in 1953, was supposed to be delivered to a Mr and Mrs Ed Nelson in the Morgan Park neighbourhood in the city of Duluth, in the US state of Minnnesota.

But by the time it arrived nearly 70 years later, it was delivered to a Susan Nordin, who told Fox 21: “Tuesday night I was making dinner, the mail arrived as usual.

Morgan Park resident received a letter that arrived 68 years late. (Susan Nordin/Newsflash)

“And I looked at it just like this and I said oh, it’s from Copenhagen, and it’s from 1953!”

She added: “And so the date was only 5 years after the house was built, it was built in 1948.”

Thanks to the help of locals, Susan managed to contact a granddaughter of the addressees.

Morgan Park resident received a letter that arrived 68 years late. (Susan Nordin/Newsflash)

Connie Anderholm, who now lives in the state of Ohio, said: “It was kinda nice I remember when my Grandmother passed my mother inherited the house, she sold it, and then I thought well, that’s the end of an era.”

Anderholm said that the letter contained information about the birth of her brother, who is called Jim, as her father was a soldier deployed in Germany who was on a trip with her mother in Copenhagen.

Anderholm said: “She went into premature labor and she delivered my brother in a post-WWII civilian Danish hospital. I understand he weighed 4 lbs at the time that was in 1953.”

Morgan Park resident received a letter that arrived 68 years late. (Susan Nordin/Newsflash)

She added: “And he survived.”

Susan said that she was delighted to have been able to connect the letter to its rightful heir, and added that she could not have made it happen without the help of her new community in Morgan Park.