Lost Letters, a Mother's Decade-Long Impossible Reunion
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Lost Letters, a Mother's Decade-Long Impossible Reunion
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Snow uncovered forty-seven pale blue envelopes on December 11, 2013 - addressed in the same hand and lying in slush at Millhaven's mail processing center after having sat forgotten on a shelf for 4 years, 2 months, and 11 days. Who wrote them, why they never reached their destination, and what it would take to reunite them with the person who waited for each page are questions that only listening will answer.
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events that led a stack of letters to vanish into bureaucracy and resurface by chance, following the daily life of the woman who wrote them and the system that misplaced them. How did routine habits, a pre-printed envelope order, and a mail contractor's routing change produce a lost chain of correspondence?
Person: Sherry Becker
Event: Forty-seven pale blue envelopes found on December 11, 2013
Location: Millhaven mail processing center
Period: Letters mailed mainly 2003-2009 with a gap 2005-2007
Case: Letters sat in a box for 4 years, 2 months, and 11 days
- Sherry printed a bulk stack of pre-addressed envelopes to Keene Correctional Facility in 2003.
- Sherry wrote monthly letters that reached Cody from 2003-2005, paused 14 months, then resumed 2007-2009.
- Approximately 47 letters mailed between 2007 and 2009 were sent to an old address and went missing.
- The undeliverable items were routed to the regional hub and placed under a metal shelving unit behind binders.
- The stack remained forgotten in the Millhaven processing center for exactly 4 years, 2 months, and 11 days.
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