It took 90 years for a postcard from a British soldier to his girlfriend to arrive at the Chippenham, England home of the deceased couple's 86-year-old daughter.

Mailed by Pvt. Walter Butler from his post during World War I, the postcard mysteriously appeared in the delivery sack of mail carrier Martin Kay. Kay did some research and discovered that Butler and his girlfriend Amy Hicks had married. Then Kay tracked down their living descendant and was able to deliver the postcard.

Butler wrote the postcard to Hicks in 1915, saying that he was alive and well. However, the postcard, issued by army, was never delivered to her home in Wiltshire, 60 miles west of London. Butler survived the war, and the couple married.

The Telegraph quoted the couple's 86-year-old daughter Joyce Hulbert as saying, "I would love to know where it has been all this time." Hulbert is now a grandmother of three and said her late parents hardly discussed the war.