Hmm guess my grandmother aint that smart than that is how she always sent my christmas present Tia
Originally Posted by Oenghus
Your Grandma sent it with L
VE....that's why it made it to you A-O-K.
I've had people send cash even CHECKS thru the mail to me and they have come with opened envelopes or not arrived at all.
Lots of possibilities for things going wrong:
1). the plane that carries the mail to you that one day crashes (as they do from time to time) and all the mail burns.
2). dishonest mail carrier might pocket it.
3). lazy mail carrier (which we've read about from time to time) stops delivering his mail and it piles up in his basement for months or years.
4). your card/letter blows away on a windy day when the carrier picks up the mail from a blue box on the street or in the post office lot.
5). your card/letter gets stuck behind a plastic box in the blue box on the street or in the post office and doesn't get found for 2 weeks later.
6). rare, but someone plain steals it from inside the recipient's box.
7). someone at the recipient's place (and I'm not referring to p411 in this thread...it's basically about losing mail in general), decides to embezzle it for themselves...heck, who's going to notice 1 persons stack of cash missing? With the economy the way it is, people are doing more daring and stupid things.
8). your card/letter gets rained on and the ink for the MAIL TO: part gets smeared....possibly you didn't put a return address on it, so they don't know where to return it. It ends up in DEAD MAIL.
9). your card/letter gets eaten by the sorting machine. They deliver it anyway in a plastic bag with an apology but minus the cash. I've had many pieces of mail eaten over the years.
10).someone at the recipients place gets so much mail that they forget to mark that you paid....perhaps they opened the mail and put the cash away, then went to lunch, came back and couldn't if or how you paid, so it just doesn't get marked down.
11). for some reason, drug sniffin' dogs somehow sniff something on your letter and it's confiscated. (Obviously, it may have been in a bag/or box next to a drug dealer's piece of mail and some of the scent filtered thru to yours)....very very rare situation, but ....lol...it could happen.
12). you accidentally misaddress it.
13). you forget to put the proper postage on it and it gets returned and though not necessarily lost, its wasted time.