Mother gets back £100 mistakenly posted by children

[TrueBlueTerrier]

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A mother was surprised to get back an envelope containing £100 in cash that her children had accidentally posted - thanks to a big-hearted postman in Belfast.


Published: 7:00AM BST 24 Jul 2009

The mix-up happened after Sarah Lockett, 32, left an envelope marked Katarina with money for her cleaner before she went away on holiday in May.

The mother-of-two put it on a table in her hall with another envelope which needed posting.

But her children Rebecca, seven, and Madeleine, five, mistakenly posted both letters.

Ms Lockett, of Hampstead, north London, feared that she would never see her money again but filled in a Royal Mail claim form for lost mail just in case.

Now almost two months after the money was posted she has got a letter from Royal Mail with a cheque for £100 as well as the original envelope.

Sarah said: "I had forgotten about it so I was shocked and delighted when it turned up.

"I am very heartened. It is just a little thing that happened but I was absolutely delighted, I couldn't believe it.

"I did not think I would ever see it again because there was no address on the envelope and I thought if someone found it they would take the cash.

"Then nearly two months later a cheque for £100 arrived in the post with the original envelope telling me a man had found it and what had happened."

She added: "I was delighted. It is a little bit of good like that which shows that someone is thinking of you upstairs."

The letter first went to Hampstead sorting office where it would have been declared as lost mail.

It then went on to a sorting office in Belfast where all of Royal Mail's lost post ends up.

Ms Lockett said: "It had been opened by an employee called Michael Carnegie on May 26 - this was handwritten on the envelope - travelled all the way to the lost mail office in Belfast and was then returned to me.

"I was just having one of those run of the mill days when I got the letter and I just thought good old Royal Mail, and especially that postman.

"I remember a programme showing CCTV of postmen taking stuff out of Christmas cards so I thought it was never coming back to me.

"The fact that he found it and then they matched up the envelope with my claim form was amazing. It really restores your faith in human nature."

A Royal Mail spokeswoman said "We are delighted to be of service - it goes to show the extra mile our people will go for our customers."

[mycroft]

The item in question has ended up in the National Returns Centre in Belfast. I work in the Centre and you would be
amazed by the amount of cash we recieve in envelopes with just a name on it. We try our best to get it back to its rightful owner and often get thank you letters from grateful members of the public who thought they would never see their items of mail again.

[POSTMAN]

The item in question has ended up in the National Returns Centre in Belfast. I work in the Centre and you would be
amazed by the amount of cash we recieve in envelopes with just a name on it. We try our best to get it back to its rightful owner and often get thank you letters from grateful members of the public who thought they would never see their items of mail again.

Do ya

Nice one,what's it like then.

[brothermagrew]

The item in question has ended up in the National Returns Centre in Belfast. I work in the Centre and you would be
amazed by the amount of cash we recieve in envelopes with just a name on it. We try our best to get it back to its rightful owner and often get thank you letters from grateful members of the public who thought they would never see their items of mail again.

Do ya

Nice one,what's it like then.

Most certainly gratifying in whatever such small measure one can help, I would suggest

[heapsy]

Reminds me of a situation quite some years back in our office. I was out on collection with a driver on the lates shift. I emptied a box on a really busy road, as I did so, I was stopped by a couple who were frantic. It was the run up to xmas and they had posted cards AND a white envelope together by mistake. The envelope contained £200. We told them that we couldn't check right there but told them to go to our delivery office and we would look for it. We isolated that sack of mail and tipped it in to a coffin and found it after about 20 minutes or so. The look on their faces was priceless!