Posted on 06/04/2020 8:31:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
May 29 (UPI) -- An Indiana woman said she was surprised when a letter her brother sent while serving in the Vietnam War finally made its way to her after 52 years.
Janice Tucker said an envelope postmarked May 10, 2020, arrived at her home in North Vernon last week and she was shocked to discover it contained a letter her brother, William Lone, had sent to her while he was serving in Vietnam in 1968.
"So, I called my brother. He lives in South Carolina. I read the letter to him and he said, 'I remember writing that letter to you,'" Tucker told WHAS-TV.
Lone said he remembered putting the letter in an envelope, affixing a 5-cent stamp and handing it off to another soldier to mail to his sister at the family's then-home in Floyds Knobs, Ind.
Tucker said the letter was not in the original envelope when it arrived at her home, indicating someone had found it and tracked her down at her current address.
"The fact that this letter came to me 52 years later by way of Indy is a real mystery to me," Tucker said. "This is not the original envelope. Someone found this and found out who I was."
She said the envelope didn't contain many clues about the letter's long journey.
"Thank you to whoever found this letter, thank you to whoever sent it to me, but most of all, thanks to my brother for being a big brother that I didn't really love and appreciate until I got older. And this letter just makes me want to honor him more," she said.
Tucker said she is hoping to find out who mailed the letter to her home so she can thank them and find out what happened to the letter in between being mailed in 1968 and arriving at her home last week.
A Canadian man had a piece of mail take a shorter, but no less mysterious route to his home this month. Elliot Berinstein said a Canada Post delivery worker left the package from Well.ca on his Toronto doorstep May 6.
The package contained a hair product he had ordered from the website in 2012. The Canada Post said officials are investigating the package's 8-year journey.
At least the young soldier made it home safely.
That proves that the Postal Service can be trusted to get the mail through! Now let’s let them do all the ballots...
Surprised they didn’t try to return it for “insufficient postage”?
Wondering that same thing. War zone mail is free, no stamp needed.
ROFL!!
My brother had to put postage on everything he mailed from Vietnam.
Newman!
If you ever saw the MYRIAD of places and equipment that one piece of USPS mail travels through,you would TOTALLY amazed at how few pieces are lost.
One canceling machine malfunction can turn a whole slew of envelopes into an ink-soaked mess, especially if one of them happened to contain a baby tooth:)!
Our rural small town post office was expanded 10 years ago. Tearing down the wall they found several thousand pieces of incoming mail from the early 50’s to mid 60’s when we only had 1 employee. He was the manager and also delivered mail.
All the mail was opened. It was speculated he was spying on people or looking for money.
We had a mail carrier here arrested for non-delivery of mail a while back. He had rented a storage facility and had thousands of pieces of mail stored in it.
When asked why he didn’t deliver the mail, he simply replied, “I didn’t feel like delivering it.”...................
Many years ago I “worked” for a year in the main post office in chicago. Sometime you needed a bag so you go over to a big pile and take one. Voila...sometimes you’d find a rubber-banded wad of undelivered letters at the bottom. You’d throw them onto the sort pile and eventually they’d get there. The problem was they could have been very important to someone’s life when they were sent.
I heard a new box of uncounted mail in ballots were found under a desk at the post office. Turns out Humphrey, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Gore, Kerry, and HRC were really our presidents. All laws passed by mis-elected republicans are now void.
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