Postal officials don't know why a Christmas card dated Dec. 23, 1914 just arrived in northwest Kansas. They are puzzled over where the card has been and what delayed the card mailed from Alma Nebraska with insufficient postage and found somewhere in Illinois.

The postcard features a colored drawing of Santa Claus and was mailed by cousins to Ethel Martin of Oberlin, Kansas who is now dead. The Oberlin Postmaster Steve Schultz wanted the card to reach Martin's relatives.

Bernice Martin, Ethel's sister-in-law, said she was surprised when the card arrived at the post office, according to Associated Press reports. It was placed in an envelope with new postage stamps for the trip to Oberlin. The original penny stamp had been insufficient postage.

Martin expressed surprise that the card was in good shape, that it hadn't been thrown away in all those years and that it had reached her.