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Letter mailed in 1943 finally delivered to family 80 years later
UPI ^
| January 4, 2024
| By Ben Hooper
Posted on 01/04/2024 12:02:57 PM PST by Red Badger
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To: WKUHilltopper
They can lose a letter faster and in greater numbers than ever before...............
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posted on
01/04/2024 1:07:54 PM PST
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while l aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Red Badger
My license plates got delivered to the wrong house in my neighborhood once.....all the way on the other side of 300+ homes. SMH
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posted on
01/04/2024 1:08:44 PM PST
by
V_TWIN
(America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
To: frank ballenger
I know an odd man who would send me mail with just a house number and street address. No city, state or zip, and it would arrive at my home OK.
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posted on
01/04/2024 1:14:23 PM PST
by
PghBaldy
(12/14/12 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15/12 - 1030am - Obama team scouts photo-op locations.)
To: PghBaldy
Maybe thought you were Santa.
But usually they refuse to deliver at least in my experience.
Unless “or current occupant.” As for Dem mail in ballots to long deceased people at that old address.
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posted on
01/04/2024 1:17:53 PM PST
by
frank ballenger
(There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
To: Red Badger
This is why they have “Forever” stamps. To cover the cost of postage even 50-100 years later.
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posted on
01/04/2024 1:38:42 PM PST
by
caddie
To: Red Badger
Would it have hurt anyone to disclose the text of the letter?
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posted on
01/04/2024 2:00:00 PM PST
by
Revel
To: caddie; Red Badger
The United States Postal Services have never, to my memory, been so expensive or unreliable.
By fdad, who was born in 1920, marveled about how a letter sent in New York City would often arrive anywhere in the 5 boroughs the same day.
NY-CA? Two or three days, but certainly under a week.
Soon we’ll be like Mexico, where 50% of packages and almost as many letters never even arrive.
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posted on
01/04/2024 2:04:52 PM PST
by
golux
To: Diana in Wisconsin
I love that show. Arnold Ziffel is the star of that show.
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posted on
01/04/2024 2:46:48 PM PST
by
EvilCapitalist
(81 million votes my ass.)
To: Red Badger
Letter mailed in 1943 finally delivered to family 80 years laterSounds like a typical experience with the USPS.
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posted on
01/04/2024 2:47:18 PM PST
by
SunTzuWu
To: PghBaldy
Back in around 1971, my father got a letter addressed to him -—simply his name and the name of the County we lived in (population then around 20,000). I cannot imagine such a thing happening today. People don’t take pleasure in solving problems/figuring things out.
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posted on
01/04/2024 4:14:19 PM PST
by
drwoof
To: Red Badger
No surprise. Address is in cursive script!
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posted on
01/04/2024 4:51:46 PM PST
by
Jumpmaster
(U.S. Army Paratrooper. I am the 0.001%.)
To: Red Badger
“lost”
Heh, heh...sure. End of shift and George is just too tired. Tossed letters behind the radiator where nobody would ever find them.
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posted on
01/04/2024 5:42:57 PM PST
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
To: Red Badger
They probably thought it was an primary absentee ballot for Dewey.
-PJ
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posted on
01/04/2024 5:47:20 PM PST
by
Political Junkie Too
( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
To: Red Badger
They used to send mail in sacks and the letters would get stuck in the bottom all the time. They finally went to postal bins so they would empty completely. They were no longer able to do this however....
Train taking up mail bag, U.S.P.O.
I had a friend whose father worked for the USPS in KC back in the 40s and 50s. His job was to ride the train from KC to Denver at night and sort the Denver mail on the way. He did the turnnaround trip from Denver to KC and sorted for Kansas City. All the mail was in bags and that is how they would pick up the mail along the way.
To: Red Badger
"Wait five more seconds.........Right on the tick. Amazing. Absolutely amazing. Too bad the post office isn't as efficient as the weather service." - Doc Brown, Back to the Future II
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posted on
01/04/2024 5:55:32 PM PST
by
RasterMaster
("Towering genius disdains a beaten path." - Abraham Lincoln)
To: RasterMaster
I once mailed a letter to my sister who at the time was 40 miles away in Minnesota. It ended up in San Diego then mailed back.
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posted on
01/04/2024 11:30:21 PM PST
by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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