I just knew that I would get some mail this week as I sent several pen pal letters last week. I was not disappointed, but I never really expected to find this! The ominous clear plastic "WE CARE" bag surrounded the carcass of a fantastically penned letter from Joel.
Joel is my pen pal from St. Peter, Minnesota who I met this summer. He has wonderful penmanship and it's a shame that only 31 lines of a 4 page letter were complete.
I gingerly opened the bag and saw this:
I was able to fill in some of the gaps about what Joel wrote, so I am composing a reply. I'm not sure that he really left his wife on the shores of Lake Superior as she crooned to a raccoon, but maybe that's what happened!
I also received a letter from a new pen friend, John. He is an interesting guy and fortunately his letter was not mangled.
I'm sorry for what happened to your letter. :( That happened to my letter from US once, and I was in a bit panic at that time as in her letter she said she moved and the part she wrote her new address was gone, so I couldn't know her new address. She wasn't on facebook and I didn't know her email address. But her old address was still active so I could get hold of her though. :) Maybe someone at the post office was really hungry. :D
ReplyDeleteI think that takes the cake for 'worst' mail received. I have received a few letters over the years in one of those baggies, but thankfully nothing was ever amiss. In fact, aside from being in a 'baggie' the whole of the letters were always intact. On the flipside, only once was one of my special gifts to a friend stolen, but the empty box with the letter was still delivered! Go figure!? This was overseas, and not through our postal service.
ReplyDeletehi T., there's been a spate of mangled mail. i just got a letter from Sarala and it had been crushed and charred!?! weird, eh.
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