Better late than never.

A British woman received a postcard in the mail from her daughter last week – a staggering 17 years after it was mailed.

Anne Smith said the card was sent by daughter Jenny when she was 9 and on vacation.

Smith said although the card was written in 1985, it carries a June 2002 postmark.

A spokesman for the British Royal Mail said the postcard could not have been lost in the system all that time and may have been found and mailed later as a joke.

Several civic-minded Italian politicians weren’t horsing around when they voted last week to weld iron underwear onto a statue of a horse.

City Council members in the Sicilian city of Catania decided to cover up the bronze genitals because a procession honoring the Virgin Mary would be passing through the square this week.

Council members said they decided to weld on the underpants to spare any embarrassment to worshippers.

A gardener was accidentally electrocuted near a nuclear power plant after he trimmed a branch that fell onto an electric transformer.

Frederick Lawley, 28, was cutting branches with a weed whacker from a giant brush just outside the Indian Point nuclear power plant in Buchanan, N.Y. on Friday when he was electrocuted.

“It appears as if the branch fell over onto a transformer, and the transformer arced,” said Sgt. Brian Tubbs of the Buchanan Police Department.

This is one couple who had a calling of a different kind.

A husband and wife pretending to pray in front of a statue of the Virgin Mary were actually charging their cell phone from an electric socket located just behind the sculpture.

Priests at a church in Milan, Italy, said the young couple were regular visitors for a month and spent an hour each day in front of the Madonna.

The couple were caught last week by a priest who found they were phone charging behind the statue.