My Mistaken Mail

Well, it's been over two weeks now and I still haven't been called in for work. Me thinks I'm out of a job, which is okay, it lasted a bit longer than I thought it would. Four weeks to be exact, from October 22nd to November 12th, 2008...that is, unless I get called in, but the chances of that are pretty nil.

But enough about my unemployment. During my employment I encountered a lot of mail, thousands a day actually and when dealing with that much mail, you're bound to stumble upon interesting letters here and there. One type of mail we sorted through were the Return To Sender (RTS) mail, basically the mail that doesn't get delivered, and winds up back to us. We usually sort through RTS when we're done with proper mail, so RTS became our work when work was done work, and I usually took my time to do it, looking at names and such when I felt like it and the inner childish boy within me had a giggle with some of the names, which I tried to take photos of, but they all came out blurry, such is the pain of a bad camera on a phone! So I'll just type down the names I happened to see.

Mrs Joanne Lisa Fullalove
Julie Gay Styles
Fleur Laninazzo (It just sounds cool)
Chika Maree Emeach (Bully's would have a field day with Chika)
William Whitehead
Mahadevan Venkataraman & Kalyani Venkataraman (Those aren't even names)
Mr Robert Freak (Freak-out!)

Most of the RTS we got were from Australia, but some of them were from overseas, which must've taken quite a bit of effort to return them. There was mail from London, Hong Kong, Japan, America, and Netherlands. Then there are cheques that we send out, but become RTS. Those are fun to look at to see how much money people aren't getting. Most of the cheques are for a few hundred dollars but these are the two extremes that I've seen.



The paper for this cheque costs more than this guy is not getting!
I also saw cheques for 5 cents and 2 cents even, can you imagine the excitement someone would get when they open the mail to see a cheque for them only for it to be made to the sum of $0.02.



Just incase its too blurry for you, thats $10,557! This guy will definitely want to call up to fix his address because thats a lot of money to miss out on!

Lastly there's the mail that we aren't supposed to get, as they've been delivered to the wrong place. We just put them in a seperate tray for it to be re-delivered, hopefully to the right location. On my second day at work, I didn't realise this and proceeded to open the letter, and discovered an iTunes gift card for $40 I think it was, suffice to say I was told off for opening mail that didn't belong to us. So I learnt from that mistake. However, when we use machines to cut up the envelopes, they usually cut them open irregardless of whether they're for us or not, and therefore we get to have a peek inside. One particular letter that provided amusement was addressed to this person...



How it wound up here I don't know, but I'm glad it did, because it was hilarious. Especially when we looked inside...



A wish list! A kid who wants Miley Cyrus stuff and a kid who wants books, generic books with no specific name! I should've taken a picture of it too but right under the Santa colouring was written "I love you Santa very much!", I'd like my kids to be able to do the same, except replace Santa with Daddy, Mummy or Jesus.



I'm assuming this note was meant for us, which was nice, and we left it on the table side for people to look at as they walked past. Ironically, this note came on the day that I was told I didn't need to come in anymore because the workload had died down. So it was a great day, in a bittersweet kind of way.