Mailbox Mystery: Magazines From 1960s Delivered to MD Home

[hpman66]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/...60s-Delivered-to-Maryland-Home-473855753.html
Mailbox Mystery: Magazines From 1960s Delivered to Maryland Home
By Pat Collins and Andrea Swalec
Published at 7:35 PM EST on Feb 12, 2018 | Updated at 7:48 PM EST on Feb 12, 2018

 

[Colonialgirl]

What, no "POSTAGE DUE" on them.

 

[pisgah]

Somebody pranking. As I recall magazines as they were delivered in the '50s and '60s, they did not come in plastic covers...

 

[cas6969]

Must be a slow news week.

 

[Bob Wright]

Somebody pranking. As I recall magazines as they were delivered in the '50s and '60s, they did not come in plastic covers...

Mail that has been sitting around the Post Office and finally discovered is put into plastic wraps or bags.

I ordered some medications via mail order pharmacy years ago, ordering in January. It was delivered in mid-June neatly packed in a new plastic wrapper. No explanation, just routine delivery.

Shortly before my retirement, I was in a bulk mail center taking field measurements. It was hot, June or July weather, and those big pedestal fans were blowing everywhere. As packages or mail can up some of the conveyors they broke open and the loose mail went everywhere. About a third were picked up, the rest left for awhile. One of the worst offenders were those drawstring bags, the strings catching on anything projecting into the area of the belt.

Bob Wright

 

[kmoore]

During training in 1990, I found a post card between the wall and 2x4 in a abandon barracks. It was from a soldier to family maybe 5 years earlier. I added a stamp on it and always wondered if it got to the same family and what they may have thought.

 

[Kevin]

I sent a Christmas card to a friend who had moved. The letter was returned as undeliverable... I received the returned card two years later.