Day-369-5-minute-freewrite-wednesday-prompt-idiot
Below is my 5 minute #freewrite on today's prompt: idiot
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What kind of idiot do you have to be, to still mail cash in a letter sized envelope?
I can see sending a $5 bill to your grandbabies for their birthday, but with the many ways of transferring money these days, why would you stuff $300 in an envelope and take the chance that it arrives safely.
The post office uses high speed equipment to process letter size mail. When someone puts the wrong thing in an envelope, ie. a key, coins, pencils, the machine jams and usually damages the 50 letters behind that first envelope.
That's what happened to this envelope, wrong place, wrong time. Luckily we were able to find all the pieces of the cash and envelope then contact the owner, to come pick it up.
If we couldn't get a hold of the owner or recipient to pick up, we would purchase a money order with the cash, then forward the money order to the address on the envelope.
Just a tip, don't be an idiot and send large amounts of cash through the mail, unless you send it registered mail.
Story and actually photo of mailed cash by Bruni
Thanks @fireawaymarmot
Since I retired with 30 years in the postal service, I know exactly what you are talking about. People put the craziest thing in a regular envelope and stick a stamp on it. I once found $1000 in $100 bills in a bank envelope that someone dropped into the collection box in front of my PO. Thankfully the withdrawal receipt was in the envelope as well and the bank was able to contact the customer and give back the cash. That may not have happened in a large metropolitan area, but here in small town America we mostly take care of each other. I once got a call at home on a Sunday morning because a customer accidentally dropped the cash they had intended for the church collection plate in our collection box with outgoing mail. I went down and retrieved the cash because by Monday morning the star route collector would have picked up everything in that box on Sunday evening and taken it to the area sectional center and untraceable.
I retired in 2013 with 31 years and I would destroy $20,000 in undeliverable gift cards every 90 days. I preach to always put those free address labels on each gift card. So we can return them to owner when they tear out of birthday cards. 🙏
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Wow... You got a wonder who does that! No way to track that and a way to get it back. It's very fortunate for the sender that you and the postal service are honest.
We find about 5 wallets a week, red box movies, Bank deposits, handicap placards, books in the blue mailboxes daily. It got to the point that I would just go to a Red Box and deposit them.
that's a kind gesture!
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Once a friend of mine mailed a slice of salami in one of those envelopes with plastic windows in them, so that anyone could see there was salami inside. It arrived safely at its destination...
Someone mailed sand from Hawaii and when that letter was inducted into the machine it spilled and closed the machine for 8 hours, while they had to take the machine apart, to clean it out.
Yea... I think my friend figured it would probably be fine bc it was flat. Prolly still an asshole move tho. We were really young.