[PAR35]

a letter that was never delivered. ... this and other similarly locked letters found in a 17th-century trunk in The Hague,

So even 600 years ago, lazy postmen were dumping mail rather than delivering it? I thought that was a more recent innovation.

[grey_whiskers]

I’ll bet it was a late ballot for Biden that they’ll still want to count.

[AZJeep]

At that time, the postage was paid by the receiving party. So they apparently did not get paid!
Unlike the lazy postmen now!

[21twelve]

NEWMAN!!