USPS Delivers Letter... 66 Years Late

[AlabamaLibrul]

If you've ever lost a piece of mail through the USPS, this story might give you hope that your grandchildren might eventually find out what happened to it.

The USPS recently delivered a letter sent from Montgomery, Alabama, to the Red Cross Hospital at Camp Roberts in California that had originally been sent on Aug. 9, 1944.

Since neither the Red Cross hospital nor the intended recipient — a Miss RT Fletcher — are still around, the letter — still sealed but with a tear in the upper left corner that makes the return address unknowable — was delivered to the cu­rator for the Camp Roberts Histor­ical Museum.

According to the curator, the postal service delivered the letter "just like an­other piece of mail, with no explanation."

http://consumerist.com/2011/03/usps-delivers-letter-56-years-late.html

[tuckessee]

1. Where did this letter first resurface?

I'm suspicious of these stories. I have dozens of letters & postcards 1900-1960 that could easily be dropped in a mail box and they would be thought of as "lost" mail.

What makes me doubt this one even more is the fact that the return address is suspiciously torn off. The letter in the article is postmarked so how do they know it was never delivered?