Alaska is the Land of Misdirected Mail. For some reason we seem to be the nation’s, if not the world’s repository for lost, badly routed, and delayed post. Ask just about any Alaskan, and they’ll offer at least one example of mail that arrived under odd circumstances, usually arriving long after the original postmark, with very odd, widely-dispersed additional postmarks added on. Those who don’t can tell you of mail they sent that never arrived.
At Christmastime 2008, we experienced an extreme case of misdirected mail. Continue reading
