The mystery of the 68 year-old letter

This week the San Francisco Chronicle mailroom was presented with a mystery: a letter mailed in 1945 suddenly appeared in their regular mail delivery. The letter had been sent by a reporter who passed away in 2001, to a small town librarian who is also now deceased. The letter contained three postage stamps.

No one knows why the letter was sent, or where it has been for the last 68 years. The most likely answer is that it was lost in the USPS system, and when an employee recently found it, they decided to drop it in the mail as though nothing had happened.

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