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Post by billhammond on Dec 26, 2017 17:14:53 GMT -5
There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day, a letter came addressed in a shaky handwriting to God with no actual address. He thought he should open it to see what it was about. The letter read: "Dear God, "I am an 83 year old widow, living on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had $100 in it, which was all the money I had until my next pension payment. "Next Sunday is Christmas, and I had invited two of my friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with, have no family to turn to, and you are my only hope... "Can you please help me? Sincerely, Edna" The postal worker was touched. He showed the letter to all the other workers. Each one dug into his or her wallet and came up with a few dollars. By the time he made the rounds, he had collected $96, which they put into an envelope and sent to the woman. The rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of Edna and the dinner she would be able to share with her friends. Christmas came and went. A few days later, another letter came from the same old lady to God. All the workers gathered around while the letter was opened. It read: "Dear God: "How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? "Because of your gift of love, I was able to fix a glorious dinner for my friends. We had a very nice day and I told my friends of your wonderful gift. "By the way, there was $4 missing. I think it might have been those bastards at the post office."
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Post by fauxmaha on Dec 26, 2017 18:14:24 GMT -5
Mary laughed. Lydia looked at me like I'd just kicked a puppy.
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Post by Dub on Dec 26, 2017 18:17:23 GMT -5
Mary laughed. Lydia looked at me like I'd just kicked a puppy. Lydia may not realize the USPS has no such job and anyone actually opening such a letter would be fired.
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Post by Doug on Dec 26, 2017 18:25:18 GMT -5
Mary laughed. Lydia looked at me like I'd just kicked a puppy. Lydia may not realize the USPS has no such job and anyone actually opening such a letter would be fired. Some where in government land is a large "waiting for pickup" box labeled "God" Cause like you say they can't open those letters it's the law. I wonder if there is a cut off date like you have to keep them for 2 yrs or 21 yrs or what ever.
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Dec 26, 2017 22:10:32 GMT -5
Actually, there is a job at the Post Office attempting to decipher addresses that are not machine readable. The image of the envelope is displayed on a computer screen and a human tries to interpret it. I saw a room full of these stations on a tour of the Indianapolis main post office.
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Post by millring on Dec 27, 2017 7:12:10 GMT -5
So, did they ever find out who stole the original $100? If they could find that and return it, she could have had $196 if she hadn't shot the wad on her lavish lifestyle.
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Post by millring on Dec 27, 2017 7:13:09 GMT -5
I can only imagine this was written sometime around 1924 when you could actually fix a glorious dinner for under $100.
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Post by millring on Dec 27, 2017 7:14:51 GMT -5
Am I the only person who found that I had $100,000 stolen and just addressed a letter to God?
I don't really care if it only nets me $96,000.
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Post by millring on Dec 27, 2017 7:15:59 GMT -5
Why do these things always happen around Christmas? If we never had Christmas, I bet crime would be significantly reduced.
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Post by Marshall on Dec 27, 2017 9:50:39 GMT -5
So would your post count.
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