A man from New Jersey said he was perplexed when a couple of letters arrived at his house that had been sent to his address 75 years earlier.
Gary Katen said the first letter that arrived at his home in Hackensack was postmarked May 4, 1946 and had two 1-cent stamps and one 6-cent stamp.
“Wow, it does 75 years,” Katen recalled to WNYW-TV.
Katen said the mystery deepened a few weeks later when a second letter arrived. He said both letters appear to be correspondence between a man and his in-laws in New Jersey. The author of the letter described a trip to California with his wife.
Katen said she couldn’t find any answers at her local post office, and did a search of local property records to find the owners from his home in the 1200 hit a dead end when it turned out that some public records were destroyed by a fire several years. back.
Katen said that she still hopes to find the relatives of the author of the letter.
“We would love to be able to meet the people to whom it was addressed because everyone they sound like a big family and say, ‘We got your mail,’” Katen said.
The spokesman for the United States Postal Service, Xavier Hernández, offered a possible explanation for the late arrival of the letters.
“What we usually find is that someone finds old pieces of mail, such as these, and then deposits them in one of our collection boxes”, he said.
“The Old letters and postcards can also be purchased at flea markets, antique stores, and even purchased online, then re-entered into the system. In most cases, these incidents do not involve mail that has been lost on the network and found later,” Hernandez said.
Susan Nordin of Duluth, Minnesota, faced a similar mystery at the end of 2021 when a letter that had been sent 68 years before. The letter, addressed to Mr. and Mrs. Ed Nelson, announced the birth of a baby named Jimmy.
Nordin was able to enlist the help of local historians on Facebook and was able to return the letter to Connie Anderholm, the Nelsons’ granddaughter. She said that her brother, Jim, was the baby announced in the letter.
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