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The Postmaster Who Buried a Town's Mail-and Its Secrets
The Postmaster Who Buried a Town's Mail-and Its Secrets
Fear and quiet unease: 230 pieces of first-class mail, sorted into pencil-labeled bundles by street, lay buried for 28 years in a field - and the satchel was checked out by the town’s 40-year postmaster. Why would a longtime civic fixture catalog his own unclaimed mail and then see an entire month’s worth of correspondence vanish into the dirt?
In this episode, we follow the published reconstruction by regional historian Alan Green and the archival trail that links a January 1991 checkout record to a March 14, 1991 ledger entry marked…
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