Posted on Jan 6, 2024
Letter from 1943 delivered to family after resurfacing at post office
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An 80-year-old piece of mail resurfaced at the DeKalb post office, creating a push on social media to unite the postcard with its intended recipient.
The lost letter was addressed to Louis and Lavena George, who lived on South 6th Street in DeKalb.
A post office employee tracked down a surviving member of the George family and delivered the letter to Grace Salazar, who recently moved from DeKalb to Portland, Oregon.
Shortly after, another surviving daughter of the Georges, Jeannette, was able to read the letter.
The lost letter was addressed to Louis and Lavena George, who lived on South 6th Street in DeKalb.
A post office employee tracked down a surviving member of the George family and delivered the letter to Grace Salazar, who recently moved from DeKalb to Portland, Oregon.
Shortly after, another surviving daughter of the Georges, Jeannette, was able to read the letter.
Letter from 1943 delivered to family after resurfacing at post office
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USPS
Portland
Posted 11 mo ago
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Well, it's been a while (Aug 93), but when I started at the USPS we had these machines that we had started to check every night. They had a ledge under the top that mail would fall on. The first time we checked there was mail that had been there for years.
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PV2 Keith Young
Sometimes the LSM is not checked by the operator. Supervision should be checking as well. I worked at the Plant and mistakes do happen.
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SSG Elbert Thomas
Well, seeing that the Nashville Processing and Distribution Center being one of the smallest centers, canceled over four million stamped pieces of mail. That's just mail with stamps it doesn't count business reply mail that doesn't get canceled. It happen on the 2nd of Jan.
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Pretty interesting story, will Guineas list this as the longest it took to deliver a letter?
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PV2 Keith Young
I worked as a letter carrier and as management. A joke that was told to me by a senior carrier. Hey, I am just getting around to those 1974 Christmas cards...this is in 2003
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