Post Office

BRIAN1956

There was a man who worked for the Post Office whose job it was to
process all the mail that had illegible addresses.

One day just before Christmas, a letter landed on his desk, simply
addressed in shaky handwriting to "God". With no other clue on the envelope, he opened the letter and read,

"Dear God,
I am an 83 year old widow living on the State pension. Yesterday
someone stole my purse. It had €100 in it, which was all the money I had in
the world and no pension due until after Christmas. Next week is Christmas
and I had invited two of my friends over for Xmas dinner. Without that
money, I have nothing to buy food with. I have no family to turn to, and you
are my only hope.

God, can you please help me?"

The postal worker was really touched, and put a copy of the letter up
on the Staff Notice board, at the main sorting office where he worked.

The letter touched the other postmen and they all dug into their
pockets and had a whip round.

Between them they raised €96. Using an official franked Post Office
envelope, they sent the cash on to the old lady, and for the rest of
the day, all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of the nice thing they
had done.

Christmas came and went. A few days later, another letter simply
addressed to "God" landed in the Sorting Office. Many of the postmen gathered around while the letter was opened.

It read,

"Dear God,

How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? Because of
your generosity, I was able to provide a lovely dinner for my friends. We
had a very nice day, and I told my friends of your wonderful gift - in fact
we haven't gotten over it and our Priest is beside himself with joy.

By the way, there was €4 missing.



I think it must have been those thieving b**tards at the Post Office."

mikemac

Man, that's old! Generally used with the Royal Mail

Good joke all the same

Dord

Good joke, I heard it on the Gerry Ryan show recently.

Kazu

that was post here not so long ago