Woman receives a postcard from 1920: Remarkable change and the power of the unchanging God
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 7 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The postal service recently delivered a postcard that was postmarked in 1920. Today's podcast tells that story, then we discuss the breakneck pace of change today, the foundation upon which our nation was built, and the privilege and urgency of building our lives on the unchanging authority of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit thedailyarticle.com. |
| 0:14.3 | Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.5 | The postcard has a green stamp of George Washington priced at one cent. |
| 0:24.6 | Its front displays a Halloween cartoon. |
| 0:27.6 | Its back contains a message written in cursive. |
| 0:30.6 | It was delivered to its address last week. |
| 0:33.6 | However, it was postmarked October 29, 1920. According to the New York Times, |
| 0:41.0 | it's not clear where the postcard has been all this time, or why it took so long to reach its |
| 0:46.6 | address. A Postal Service spokesman explained that such incidents typically occur when old |
| 0:52.3 | letters and postcards are purchased at flea markets, |
| 0:55.5 | antique shops, or online, then put in the mail. |
| 1:00.8 | The person who mailed the postcard would hardly recognize our world today. In the midst of a |
| 1:06.7 | year unlike any other, it's easy for us to feel the same way. Burger King has unveiled its |
| 1:12.4 | post-pandemic future. Their restaurants will have walk-up windows for touchless orders and three |
| 1:18.5 | drive-through lanes. One is for delivery drivers picking up mobile orders for customers. Walmart, |
| 1:24.5 | the nation's largest retailer, is testing drone delivery as the competition |
| 1:29.4 | intensifies to bring products to customers' homes. Engineers have developed a robot that can |
| 1:35.5 | detect whether people are wearing a mask to guard against COVID-19. If they're not, it can |
| 1:41.2 | politely remind them to put one on and then thank them when they do. |
| 1:45.0 | UPS is hiring 100,000 workers for the holiday season as it anticipates a gigantic surge in e-commerce sales due to the pandemic. |
| 1:55.0 | Amazon also plans to hire 100,000 additional employees as online shopping escalates. |
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