Who knows what happened to this little envelope posted by Jean-François on July 23, 1989?
A resident of the town of Saint-Denis-de-l'Hôtel, in Loiret, was very surprised to see this letter arriving in his mailbox on December 11 intended for a former tenant, Michèle, reports the République du Center.
The current tenant then contacted his aunt, Nelly, a long-time friend of Michèle.
She left the Loiret house “more than twenty years ago to settle in Charente,” Nelly explained to our colleagues.
And for good reason: the postcard had been mailed to him almost 35 years ago.
Enough to have a nice surprise at the announcement of this unexpected, even unexpected, letter.
A re-expedition from Deux-Sèvres
Michèle, the recipient, then asked her friend by phone to read this postcard to her.
It turned out that it had been posted by his brother Jean-François on July 23, 1989, who was at that time on vacation in the Pyrénées-Orientales, in the town of Bompas, not far from the Mediterranean.
“He wrote there:
The sea is close, the water is good…
” summarized Nelly.
How can we explain that this mail took nearly 35 years to reach its destination?
This is where all the mystery remains.
The card left on December 7 from a post office in Deux-Sèvres, located in Saint-Martin-de-Sanzay, far from its starting point.
A routing error?
A letter forgotten and then found?
It is very likely that Michèle's family will never have the answer.
But they gained less of a vacation souvenir.