Contents of 60-Year-Old Mail Revealed

Mail Missing for 62 Years

Almost 62 years after being sent, some mail was finally delivered to a Colorado Springs man named George King. He was informed about the discovery last week.

St. Anthony’s High School, which was a junior seminary when George attended, called last week to inform him that a letter was finally delivered there for him. "He said 'a letter came today addressed to you, and it’s postmarked January 1950,'” George said.

King and the school’s representative worked out a plan to put the letter back in the mail, and hope it went a little faster this time. But before they could do that, the school received more overdue mail.

Now, to make sure King got it all, a school employee named Alejandro Caldron brought the mail to Colorado Springs himself.

Something like this doesn't happen every day. I've been at St. Anthony's for 11 years and nothing like this has happened," Caldron said. "I knew it was a sign I needed to come and meet Mr. King."

"He took the trouble to run this thing down - ya know - and find me,” King said about Caldron. “He didn’t just trash it.”

Inside the envelopes, a King found a note from his cousin and a postcard from his mother.

"She said 'Daddy just brought the mail in,'" he said, "and in it was a letter from me and she is answering that."

Now that he knows what the letters contained, the only lingering question is: Where have they been this whole time?

"It's kind of like a delivery from history," King said, laughing.