Reminds me of the story of the guy who was donating some old clothes out of his attic, and in checking the pockets runs across a claim check for a pair of shoes he'd left off for repair twenty years earlier.  He looks up the store, and they're still in business, so for a lark he decides to take the claim check down there.

He hands it to the guy without a word.  The cobbler looks at it, nods, and hands it back, saying "they'll be ready next Tuesday..."

When my younger sister was little, she wrote a letter to our grandma and mailed it with Blue Chip Stamps.  The post office delivered it.  My grandma kept it until she died and my mother has it now.  We still get a chuckle out of it.

I have to add this.  My niece wrote a letter to our anut in Oklahoma.  She addressed it;  Aunt Eula, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.  It went to seven Aunt Eula's but it finally reached the right one.

Another recent story about a postal oddity turns out to be a fake:

in the 2006 election, an absentee ballot was mailed with what was thought to be an extremely rare and valuable stamp, nicknamed the "Inverted Jenny":

http://www.foxnews.com/stor...

Here's a picture of some real inverted Jennies.  You will quickly see that the image of the biplane in the counterfeit stamp (above link) is misplaced:

http://www.mysticstamp.com/...

I'll never forget the time that I was 18 and working in a McDonalds, and someone used a rare $1 Silver Certificate to pay for his cheeseburger.

Or later, when I was a manager in a McDonald's, someone paid for a meal with a dozen rolls of pennies -- and they were all wheat pennies -- every last one of them.

Hardliner:

It is obvious that the twelve rolls of wheat pennies were stolen.  You should have been a good citizen and called the police department to see if there had been any recent reports of thefts of coin collections.

Leave it to some idiot to post crap on what should be a "light topic."

No, it's not obvious, because not a single manager or crewperson considered the possiblity.

Aw Shucks,  Blame the delay on Bush and the rest of the "Neocons" --- Obviously the government was busy opening the mail!  (They get blamed for everything from global warming to the cost of a loaf of bread so what's another hit? )

;-)

The Postmaster in our local Post Office is still that way. Man, he'll make phone calls to long-time residents just to find out who someone or someplace might be. My Father-in-law actually received a letter addressed to to his name and "Possum Hill". His address was actually a rural route # in Atoka, TN. The zip code was right and the Postmaster did what he does, and the letter was delivered. There's NOTHING around here actully (officially) named Possum Hill.

Unfortunately, our recent route carrier is a mess. He/she can't seem to hit the right mail box for love nor money. Our previous carrier was a real sweetheart (she retired two years ago).

Twelve years ago, when we built our current house, I put in a tunout beside my Mail Box. This gave her a spot to get out of the road to sit and sort, or avoid moving farm equipment. In Tennessee, the road shoulders are almost non-existant. Most roads drop off into a ditch on either side.