Posted on 03/09/2012 8:57:01 PM PST by nickcarraway
Mail sent before finder's parents were born
People complain about the mail being slow, but this is ridulous.
High school student Lauren Seely found a strange-looking envelope in her family's mailbox -- strange-looking because, according to its postmark, it was sent off in 1956.
In case you're wondering, that's 10 years before her parents were born.
"I am not certain why it showed up yesterday or where it has been since 1956, but it was pretty cool," Seely said.
The envelope was addressed to Mr. Henry J. Leicnbach at the Seely family's Tilden Street NW address. It had a whopping five cents' worth of postage on it, one stamp worth three cents and another worth two. A standard stamp in 1956 cost three cents.
The family opened the envelope. Inside was a second-quarter bulletin of the National Railway Historical Association in Allentown, Penn.
We found nothing on Henry J. Leicnbach, but we did notice a 1975 book by a Henry J. Leinbach titled "El Paso Electric Company, Transportation Division: A Tentative History" and published by the Electric Railroaders' Association.
We couldn't find one of those, but we did locate the website for the National Railway Historical Society, which was founded in 1935. It now has a Philadelpia address.
Was Leicnbach... or Leinbach... a previous resident of the Seelys' home? It's unclear -- property records for the address are only showing the Seely family.
"The envelope wasn't even messed up," Kelli Seely, Lauren's mom, told us. "It's amazing -- so weird."
Well, my mail carrier routinely loses my mail and I’m not kidding. He’s a little Korean guy with a very bad attitude. I’m pretty sure he hates the job. He also never shows up when it’s raining. I live at the end of a long culdesac so I guess he just doesn’t feel like making the walk. I’ve also found mail lying in the street on the sidewalk and in the gutter a few times. I guess it just falls out of his bag he’s so careless. I’ve complained to the local postmaster and he just kind of yawns and nothing changes.
One time he delivered a check to the wrong street with the same number as mine. I finally had the check cancelled and a few days later the guy who lived there was kind enough to bring my letter with the check to my house. Even though I already cancelled it at least I knew what happened to it thanks to him.
This has been going on for years now. What I’m saying is this carrier cares nothing about the mail or his job. He’s like the mailman from hell. Anytime something important is expected in the mail it’s like an adventure. Right now I’ve been waiting for my tags from DMV, they are a month and a half late and I’m driving with expired tags. I HATE my mail service and it’s caused me lots of problems over the years all because of this same carrier.
Yeah, so I can see them taking 55 years to deliver a letter. I really can. Maybe it’s this guy’s Dad that finally got around to delivering it?
At that time we had people from 35 different countries in the neighborhood.
If you ever saw "The History of White People" you'd recognize that the Indian fellow who tells the newcomers "Welcome to the neighborhood" is providing a supplemental mail delivery service ~ complete with cow.
Some of these things are simply true.
Old, but a good one. Thanks for the laugh.
“It is about respecting people’s privacy, and property rights.”
So the historian and the archeologist are unethical?
Good luck tryin' to do anything about it...they got a union, y'know?
Exactly! I've given up trying to straighten it out with the carrier or the post office. They don't care, in fact, they don't give a rats ass that we don't get our mail. And the smug little creep always has an air of unfriendliness and arrogance. He knows he can do the job any way he wants because of his union status and nothing ever happens to him because of his incompetence. It's really infuriating.
By the way, we don't live out in the country where our house is hard to get to or anything like that. We're right smack in the suburbs but my house is on the end of the street. There's no reason other than laziness on his part that keeps me from getting decent mail service.
Sheesh! Obviously this is a subject I need to vent about cause it's a constant piss off for us.
“So the historian and the archeologist are unethical?”
You are comparing 55 year old mail with archeology?
And saying this has anything to do with historians is a big stretch.
Historians and archaeologists do not break in to other people’s attics and start nosing around their family heirlooms. Opening someone’s old mail is much the same thing.
You are just looking for an argument for the sake of an argument. You have no point to make.
Go find someone else to play with as I am already bored by your silly attempt at relevancy.
Get a PI take some pictures and show him you know where his kids go to school.
Service might improve.
“Go find someone else to play with as I am already bored by your silly attempt at relevancy.”
Thank you for providing us a shining example of someone who take’s themselves way to seriously.
Also, I had bills I sent and thought were payed that never got to the places that they were suppose to get to, so I finally started to pay over the net. Just don't trust the Post Office too much after they got me in trouble more than once.
But then the solar storm this week shifted it into our universe.
Well, it’s an idea.
I thought something similar, or maybe a time glitch of some kind, which I personally think can possibly happen. The tell would be if the envelope and letter therein seem completely fresh or are they yellowish or maybe slightly old smelling? It would be interesting to know.
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