She was in a black gloom because not even a postcard had arrived from Ricky.

The town has a post office, but it should be noted that the postcards we sent from Culebra to the mainland never arrived.

A week later, a postcard arrived at the newsroom: "I quit.

On short trips the postcards often arrived several days after he'd already returned home.

Your postcard arrived just before we left, and was a nice surprise, and a relief too.

As the days passed he grew convinced that he had been abstractly victimised - but then the postcard arrived.

The letters and postcard duly arrived and were duly read the following day.

The third postcard arrived three days later.

Two weeks after the funeral, a postcard arrived at Aunt Kate's, along with a check.