ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – Boston-area businessman Edward Hammond never heard back on whether a Roseburg store was willing to handle the sale of his stamp collections.

That’s because his postcard, mailed Oct. 13, 1937, didn’t arrive until Monday.

Postal carrier Kelly Pace was sorting mail when he spotted the brown card with its printed one-cent stamp. It was addressed simply to “Roseburg Book Store, Roseburg Oregon.” That store opened in 1910 in a building now occupied by Roseburg Book & Stationery.

Pace delivered it with the rest of the day’s mail.

Duane Dodge, a supervisor at the Roseburg Post Office, said the card is in good shape and speculated that it may have spent the last 68 years somewhere undisturbed.

“Someone might have moved a cabinet, they might have torn down a building or something else,” Dodge said.

Local postal officials say they hope whoever found it and put it back in the system will contact them with details.

The solicitation would have been appropriate in that era, Roseburg Book & Stationery clerk Vera Wilson said.

“I know we did a lot of business in stamps,” said Wilson, who in 1937 was in the third year of a career at the store that has spanned 71 years.

It turns out Hammond owned a lumberyard and dabbled in stamps, said Ralph Sherman, who lives in a home built by Hammond in Newton, Mass., 10 miles west of Boston.

“He was a stamp dealer by hobby,” said Sherman, reached by phone this week.

Sherman believes Hammond died in the late 1940s or early 1950s. His wife, Daisy, died in 1971.

Store owners said they’ll probably frame the long-delayed card and hang it in the shop.