Interesting Piece of Mail

Yesterday's mail (September 13, 2012) included a Flat Rate Priority Mail envelope with no postmark.  

 

Inside the envelope was a letter dated July, 2012  from the Manager Consumer and Industry Contact of the United States Postal Service, Coppell, Tx.  It read:

 

"Dear Postal Customer

This letter is to inform you that an Office of Inspector General investigation has resulted in the recovery of mail. You will find this mail enclosed.

We sincerely regret the delay.  We realize that your mail is important to you and that you have every right to expect it to be handled in a secure manner.

We hope you understand and accept our apology for any inconvenience this situation may have created for you.  We trust the information provided will be sufficient for any discrepancies with any of your creditors or correspondents.

If additional assistance is needed in this matter, please do not hesitate to contact our Consumer Affairs and Claims Office at ......"

The mail they had recovered was post marked October 11, 2006 and was a flyer inviting me to one of the bereavement luncheons I used to attend.  

I won't lie.  Seeing the name of the hospice in the return address did upset me for a few minutes and caused a few flashbacks.  

I have had lost letters returned to me before, but not almost six years later.  While this did cause me a few flashbacks, it was okay.  It was a much better letter to receive than the pile of damaged mail we received from the wreckage of Delta Flight 191 that crashed at DFW in 1985.  I had trouble dealing with that mail, not only at home, but we also received some of that mail at work.

I just hope that anyone else who received lost mail yesterday had something much more interesting in their envelope.