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Lithuanian lost letters from 1960s, 70s delivered decades later
Letters that had been misplaced for many years have lastly been delivered.
In keeping with Reuters, 18 letters from the Sixties and 70s had been found over the summer season in a former publish workplace in Vilnius, Lithuania, whereas a wall within the constructing was being demolished.
The proprietor of the constructing, Jurgis Vilutis, advised Reuters that he thinks a postal employee in all probability searched the letters for cash and hid them.
When the letters had been discovered, Vilutis mentioned he reached out to the publish workplace, who determined to attempt to monitor the recipients down.
“I’m so pleased they bought ,” Vilutis advised Reuters.
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In keeping with the outlet, the letters had been from pen buddies or family who had moved out of Lithuania, which was a part of the Soviet Union on the time.
A group of 18 letters that had been despatched about 50 years in the past through the Lithuanian Postal service had been just lately discovered hidden in a wall.
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A letter despatched to Lithuanian lady Genowefa Klonowska round 50 years in the past is pictured.
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After months of monitoring the recipients down – since avenue names and numbers have modified –, publish workplace employees in Vilnius had been lastly capable of ship just a few of the 18 letters final month, in response to Reuters.
5 recipients had been discovered and in some circumstances, publish workplace employees delivered the letters to the youngsters of the supposed recipients.
“We felt an ethical responsibility to do that,” Deimante Zebrauskaite, Lithuania Put up’s head of the shopper expertise division, advised Reuters.
Genowefa Klonowska just lately obtained this letter, together with a paper doll and a home made coloured rose, which had been despatched round 50 years in the past.
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Constructing proprietor Jurgis Vilutis exhibits a gap within the wall the place the letters had been discovered within the former publish workplace constructing in Vilnius, Lithuania.
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“One woman in contrast the expertise to receiving a message from a bottle thrown into sea,” Zebrauskaite added.
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One recipient, Genovefa Klonovska, obtained a letter from a pen pal in Poland that was stamped in 1970, when Klonovska was 12.
Letter recipient Genowefa Klonowska holds a letter obtained round 50 years later in Vilnius, Lithuania, January 25, 2022.
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The letter included a home made coloured rose and two paper dolls, in response to Reuters.
“I believed that somebody was pranking me,” Klonovska, who’s presently in her 60s, advised the outlet.
In keeping with Reuters, Klonovska doesn’t bear in mind her pen pal and thinks their relationship ended when Klonovska by no means bought her letter.
“So good that the letter was inconsequential,” she advised Reuters. “The loss was not life-changing.”
She added: “What in the event that they delivered a misplaced letter from a suitor to his love, and their marriage ceremony by no means occurred?”
