Letter returned by post office after finally giving up after 71 years
In late August, the Christ Episcopal Church in Alameda got an envelope in the mail that was postmarked October 26, 1955. Inside it was a long-lost important document.
TL;DR
- A baptismal certificate from 1955 mysteriously arrived at a California church 71 years after being sent.
- The certificate belonged to Pamela Jean Haslam, whose son, Lucas Woodward, was an infant when she died.
- The church rector located Woodward in Michigan through a Facebook post and genealogy records.
- The document arrived just in time for Woodward's wedding, allowing him to have a memento of his mother.
- The US Postal Service believes the letter was likely re-entered into the system rather than lost for 71 years.