'Moon' Beams over Recovered Letters

Miami Transportation Supervisor Ray Ballou found several letters dated 1955 and 1956 without an envelope in a hamper.  The letters were accompanied with a note with the customer’s name, Barbara Moon, in the heading, as well as with another letter dated October 28, 2011. 

Determined to solve this mystery, Ballou brought the letters to Miami P&DC Executive Secretary Sheia Wright who in turn, contacted Manny Diaz in the Consumer and Industry Contact Office.  Diaz promptly began his investigation to put together the pieces of the puzzle.

“I read all the letters to obtain a clue to reunite the sender with the addressee,” Diaz said. 

He checked the office files for complaints of missing mail and came up empty.  Then he checked the White Pages to determine the number of Moon entries.  Diaz was ready to make some calls to Moon residences across the country, when he noticed the clue that brought it all together.

“I support Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada” was printed on the bottom of the letter.  He contacted this organization which put him in touch with Moon.

 “I am astounded that these letters have been found!” Moon beamed.

In October, Moon mailed the letters inside a birthday card from Canada to her cousin, Lois, in Crystal River, Florida.  The card never arrived.

“The letters were over 50 years old; I kept them to read ‘in my old age which recently just arrived.’ I thought my cousin would enjoy seeing and reading them again after all these years,” Moon said.

“I am very impressed that postal employees would go to such lengths to track down the sender of these letters.  Thank you very much.”