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Gothamist received an odd letter yesterday. Odd because (1) it was from a stranger and (2) it was written entirely on the back of a card from a friend. Apparently someone found a card our friend was going to mail and decided to mail it - but not without writing us a nice note: He mentioned he was going to a party for his wife and her twin sister, that the Darwin exhibit at the AMNH wasn't that great, and generally wished us well...oh, and that our friend must have dropped the card moments before he found it last Friday, as it wasn't even wet. Which definitely made us wonder about our strategies when we see random mail. We tend to ignore it, because what if the person does track back for it, but someone told us we should just mail it back again.
What do you do when you see mail on the street? Pick it up and mail it? Or ignore it, as you've got people to see, places to go?
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I would mail it....
............... to HELL!!
Never came across mail on the street, but I do put mail sent to me (labeled for another address) by mistake back in the Mailbox in the hope it gets there the 2nd time.
I found a stamped bill on the street, so I put it in the mailbox. Seems like the right thing to do.
i've had a driver's license mailed back to me anonymously. i'd dropped it somewhere in the street.
I LOVE THIS. Love it. He even wished you the best for your big day. Things like this renew my faith in people.
dirty fingernail.
It seems like the anonymous author actually knows "Jon," the would-be card-sender. That's part of why (s)he is writing a big thing.
For a week or so, when I lived in Boerum hill, the postal person was apparently on crack, and delivered mail intended for entirely different blocks. I wrote little messages on the stuff saying "this was delivered to (address), you should complain about it" before remailing.
Am I wrong or did PNC open the envelope and read the contents? How else would he know that Jon couldn't make it to the event? Nice gesture, but ewww -- reading the mail first!
Yeah, actually.... ??? How did he know!
Totally dirty fingernail! I had been cleaning my apartment some. But if anyone wants to send me a gift certificate for a manicure, I won't say no.
And I think he could actually read the RSVP through the envelope - I've been trying to avoid looking at the backs of the envelopes so I'm surprised (yes, I play dumb games like that).
According to the post office, PNC did give you a valid PO Box address. It's in Corbin, VA (damn tourists). Why not try thanking him with a note of your own?
I think most people would mail it. I have done it before and will do it again. It is good karma.
i had my wallet stolen twice last year and BOTH times it was mailed back to me.... once with my ipod, cell phone, etc. (whole purse was stolen, but they kept the purse, a book about el barrio, and my scarf.... and apparently downloaded a bunch of music from my ipod.... very bizarre), and the second time my wallet and IDs were all sent to different places by the postal service. apparently if you put a wallet in a mailbox and there's an address in there, they send it to the owner. needless to say, i'm way more cautious now (and appreciative of the USPS... though i still rarely receive packages sent to my apartment).
Once I had ordered a duplicate/replacement birth certificate from the city. It had gotten stuck to another person's, and they accidentally sent both my birth certificate and her's to her address.
This woman, who obviously had my name, looked me up in the phone book and called me, and she sent it over to me. Needless to say, I was pretty damn happy, since a more unscrupulous person could have used a copy of my birth certificate to... stuff I guess.