A Norwegian charity received a “return to sender” letter that had been sent out to a potential donor 39 years ago.
Norwegian Church Aid received the letter earlier in the month with “address unknown”, “return to sender” stamped on it. The charity had sent it out in 1975. The charity’s press officer Hakon Haugsbo said they had no idea where it had been all this time.
The man who was meant to receive the letter had moved by the time it had been sent out. He passed away in 2005, but Norway’s VG newspaper managed to contact his daughter and find out her address so the Church Aid could send the letter to his family. She said that it was funny her father’s letter had been missing for nearly 40 years, and that he would have been amused by it if he had been alive today.
Norwegian postal service spokeswoman Hilde Ebeltoft Skaugrud apologised on behalf of the service and to the charity and the man’s daughter. She explained that it had probably been misplaced inside one of their terminals or got trapped somewhere. She added, however, that the story proves they never give up as even after 40 years the family received the letter.