Too bad the family can't get back a refund from the Postal Service, with interest accrued...
Would love to know where that letter has been for 52 years. Where was it found and under what circumstances? Why does the post office not have to account for such a long delay in delivery?
Take your choice
http://www.zabasearch.com/query1_zaba.php?sname=frederick%20z%20yost&state=ALL&ref=&se=&doby=&city=&name_style=1
I wonder if it's the same Frederick Zane Yost pictured at this link...
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacambr2/WHHS/WHHS6908.html
A google search also turns up a high school picture of Frederick Zane Yost from 1969--assuming it's the same guy.
Post 2 gone.
Dangit!
Those people lead limited, unexciting, boring lives I tell you.
Single-piece rate First-Class letter mail can be and is misrouted, and sometimes for as long as 52 years!
If the US Post Office would offer delayed delivery, to both senders and recipients,for an additional fee, it could erase the national debt. Think about it..."The check is in the mail.", or "Your invoice hasn't arrived yet."
How much would it cost me to have all my bills held till after I'm gone?
Long-lost letter on way to addressee
A letter that never made it to a 3-year-old Westmont boy 52 years ago finally is on its way.
Frederick Zane Yost, now of Daytona Beach, Fla., soon should be able to open the missive mailed to him from Johnstown on Oct. 26, 1954, thanks to a family who lives in the home where his parents once resided..
Brian McAteer of Ferndale was shocked when he found the letter in the mailbox at his Ferndale Avenue home a couple of weeks ago. The Yost family had lived there before moving to Westmont...