A man in New Jersey was baffled when two letters arrived on his doorstep 75 years after they were mailed.
A new Jersey resident got two letters dated from 75 years ago
Gary Katen received two pieces of very snail like mail to his home in Hackensack that was dated on 4 May 1946 with a one cent stamp and six cent stamp. His confusion deepened when another turned up from a similar time period. After he concluded the letters were from a man writing to his in-laws, Gary tried to track down the sender with no luck.
Explaining how he’d “love” to give them to the intended recipient, Gary told WNYW-TV: "We'd love to be able to meet the people that it was addressed to because they all sound like such a great family and to say, 'we got your mail.'"
Xavier Hernandez, from the United States Postal Service offered a potential reason for very delayed arrival that wasn’t about being lost in the system.
He said: "What we typically find is that old mail pieces, like these, are found by someone and then deposited into one of our collection boxes.”