01-21-2004, 11:48 AM
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Psycho
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The Check Really Was In The Mail
BIll Payment Arrives 5 1/2 years after it was Mailed.
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MIFFLINVILLE, Pa. -- The letter accompanying a check for $90.18 asked Dean Little not to cash it until Aug. 29, 1998. No problem. He just got it Tuesday.
Little said the aged envelope that arrived in his mail caught his eye, and so did the canceled 32-cent stamp, since postage now costs 37 cents. But the kicker was the Reading postmark from Aug. 24, 1998.
Little, a sales manager for the Bloomsburg-area Schwan's ice cream business, said the letter was from former customer Derek Seibert, of Klingerstown, in Schuylkill County, with payment enclosed on his account with Schwan's.
Mifflinville postmaster Sheila Gilbert said the 5½-year-old correspondence might have been lost at an out-of-town mail processing center, perhaps having gotten stuck in a piece of equipment or fallen behind a machine or counter.
Since the original check was considered lost, the Seiberts wrote the business another one. Before that, Little remembers calling about the owed money back in 1998 and being told that a check was "in the mail."
"They weren't lying," Little said.
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Haven't we all been at this point somewhere along the line?
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