so THAT's where my mail ends up. . .

[Vanessa]

Postcard Sent Back With 1956 Postmark


DELAND, Fla. - Talk about lost in the mail. A postcard sent from a Stetson home to a man in Riverside, Calif., was returned this week with a "return to sender" stamp — and its 1956 postmark.

Mack McCormick, 59, did not send the postcard, but he lives in the home where the postcard originated. It was delivered to his mailbox Monday.

"The card apparently has been in the twilight zone for 50 years," McCormick said. "It's not wrinkled or anything."

He used the Internet to track down the author of the note, George Hitz, 64, who now lives in Sudbury, Mass.

"I had to keep asking questions and pull it out of Mack," Hitz said. "It wasn't obvious to me that he lived in our house."

Hitz, a former ham radio operator included his age on the postcard and information about a radio contact he made in February 1956 with someone he called "Chief Operator Dave." No street address was included for Dave, which may explain why the postcard was not delivered, postal officials said.

It is unlikely the postcard spent the last 50 years in a DeLand post office, said Joseph Breckenridge, U.S. Postal Service spokesman for Central and North Florida. The local post office has not been in the same location that long, and maintenance workers would have found it if it was trapped in a sorting machine, Breckenridge said.

The card may have been sent to California and was rediscovered recently by someone who dropped it back in the mail, Breckenridge said.

Hitz said he is not interested in getting his old postcard back. McCormick plans to frame it.

So, does the Post Office deliver to the Twilight Zone?

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

So, does the Post Office deliver to the Twilight Zone?

Has to be. No other explanation for that! [huh]
I can't believe the guy that sent it wouldn't want it back, I would.

 

[Lauren]

What's stranger... that the postcard was delivered REALLY late, or that this guy descided to track down the original owner and when he didn't want it back descided to frame the card. [huh]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

In Chile, the Santiago Central Post Office has a little museum. On display there is a letter that was sent from Santiago to Philadelphia in 1919, and returned "address unknown" back to Santiago in .... are you ready? ... 1993. That's right: it sat on a U.S. post office shelf somewhere for 74 years. Makes you wonder why they finally bothered to send it back!

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Makes me wonder,.......

In Chile, the Santiago Central Post Office has a little museum. On display there is a letter that was sent from Santiago to Philadelphia in 1919, and returned "address unknown" back to Santiago in .... are you ready? ... 1993. That's right: it sat on a U.S. post office shelf somewhere for 74 years. Makes you wonder why they finally bothered to send it back!

.....just how much mail, or rather,.....my mail, is sitting on a shelf in some post office somewhere!

 

["Doc" Devereux]

So, does the Post Office deliver to the Twilight Zone?

Through rain or sleet or dark of dimensional rift..?

 

[Vanessa]

As an added note to this story: when I got home today, there was a package waiting in the mail for me. It was a pattern that I'd ordered last November off ebay. After several weeks of waiting for it, the seller finally refunded the money when it appeared as if it was gone forever.
There were no lost or address unknown marks on it. . . postage was correctly paid & it was sealed well. Who knows what shelf it's been sitting on since November 5th.

 

[MrBern]

10 years later

We went to Disneyworld in the `70s. Lots of kodachrome home movies.
Dad lost track of how many reels he sent in for processing.
10 years later one stray showed up in th mailbox.
He was mystified & amused.

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Proof positive,.....

As an added note to this story: when I got home today, there was a package waiting in the mail for me. It was a pattern that I'd ordered last November off ebay. After several weeks of waiting for it, the seller finally refunded the money when it appeared as if it was gone forever.
There were no lost or address unknown marks on it. . . postage was correctly paid & it was sealed well. Who knows what shelf it's been sitting on since November 5th.

........of the phenomenon of synchronicity.

 

[jamespowers]

Geez, does the USPS have a branch in the Bermuda Trinangle or what?
I knwo I have had stuff delivered months late but decades late?! [huh]

Regards to all,

J

 

[decodoll]

Geez, and I thought the letter than took 14 days to get to me in San Francisco from Oakland the other day was bad....

 

[jamespowers]

Geez, and I thought the letter than took 14 days to get to me in San Francisco from Oakland the other day was bad....

Yeah, the postmaster over on this side of the bay is a moron. No doubt the people they hire are not exactly geniuses.

Regards,

J

 

[mysterygal]

yeah, I don't think it takes much brains to be a mail carrier it does make you wonder how much mail you haven't gotten.

 

[jamespowers]

yeah, I don't think it takes much brains to be a mail carrier it does make you wonder how much mail you haven't gotten.

As long as they forget to deliver junk mail, I will be happy.

Regards,

J

 

[mysterygal]

lol lol
That would be probably 90% of my mail that I didn't have to throw away anymore

 

[Fedorista]

Surprising that the USPS didn't nick the guy with a "postage due" for 22 cents.

 

[jamespowers]

lol lol
That would be probably 90% of my mail that I didn't have to throw away anymore

Yeah, me too. Geez, there are only so many times you can refinance your house and sell it.

Regards,

J

 

[John in Covina]

Back in high school a friend got a large format envelope from some place many months after it had been mailed and there were several foot prints on it. We guessed it fell on the floor and nobody felt like picking it up.

 

[jamespowers]

Back in high school a friend got a large format envelope from some place many months after it had been mailed and there were several foot prints on it. We guessed it fell on the floor and nobody felt like picking it up.

Those poor underpaid postal workers.
"Stop! Drop the gun. I was only kidding!"

Regards,

J

 

[Story]

Along the same lines -

Updated:2006-04-18 16:45:14
Man Rediscovers Gift Fruitcake From 1962
AP

WAUKESHA, Wis. (April 18) - Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake - he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic. Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.

"I was amazed that it hadn't changed at all," he said.

Nesta's two aunts sent him the fruitcake in November 1962 while he was stationed in Alaska with the Army.