Canada Post comes through for Gleichen woman
Postal employee finds the right home for lost birthday card
CBC News
Posted: Dec 10, 2012 12:51 PM MT
Last Updated: Dec 10, 2012 12:12 PM MT
Canada Post managed to return a lost birthday card to a sender who failed to include a return address. (Graham Huges/Canadian Press)
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A woman in Gleichen, Alta., is giving Canada Post credit for the extra effort to return a lost birthday card containing money.
Gwennyth Bolinger mailed the card to her son in Copenhagen, Denmark, along with £60 — the equivalent of $95 Cdn — but she forgot to put the return address on the envelope.
The Danish mail service re-directed the envelope back to Canada and Bolinger says that's when a Canada Post employee traced the origin of the envelope through its stamp code.
"I was so impressed. I thought, 'Wow, that was a lot of extra effort,'" she said. "And the great thing was, the £60 was still in the envelope."
Bolinger says the employee went through every Bolinger listed in the phone book under Gleichen until the postal worker reached her.
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