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Omaha Steve

(99,658 posts) Sat Oct 19, 2013, 03:33 PM Oct 2013

Grace: Letter was lost for 63 years, but their love wasn't

http://www.omaha.com/article/20131019/NEWS/131018564/1685#grace-letter-was-lost-for-63-years-but-their-love-wasn-t

By Erin Grace

Allen Tully wrote the love letter in 1950.

He mailed it with a 6-cent airmail stamp from Savannah, Ga., in 1950. It was postmarked at 8:30 p.m. on July 23, in the year 1950.

But where it spent the next 63 years — and how it suddenly resurfaced 10 days ago — is a bit of a mystery.

It's a mystery to Allen Tully, who said he found the letter in his mailbox, unopened.

FULL story and photo at link.

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Grace: Letter was lost for 63 years, but their love wasn't (Original Post) Omaha Steve Oct 2013 OP

In the '60s I was working in the GPO Houston, TX TexasProgresive Oct 2013 #1

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1. In the '60s I was working in the GPO Houston, TX

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Sat Oct 19, 2013, 04:52 PM

Oct 2013

This is a massive plant with conveyor belts carrying baskets of mail over head. I spotted and retrieved a letter caught in a support for one of the belts. It was several years old (couldn't be too many years as the GPO was fairly new). I asked the shift superintendent what to do with it. He took it from me and after a glance put it in the mail to be sorted, saying, "The mail must go through."

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