Card fell out

[Sapphire Silk]

Partial sighting at the post office today.

While I'm standing in line at the post office, an older lady walks in. As we wait (we were the only two in line) she expresses frustration about something she tried to mail earlier today.

Lady: My son didn't seal the envelope, and the money card is about to fall out.

My guess was she was mailing a gift card of some sort to someone. I didn't get a chance to ask why as I was next in line. I mail my package, and as I leave hear the lady talking to the clerk. She was describing her son in detail (clerk might remember, might not, it's a very small post office), and then the situation.

I left then, and up to that point she hadn't been sucky. But somehow I don't think the post office clerk was gonna let her go through mail sacks to find that envelope to make sure it was sealed.

[MoonCat]

So, he threw it in the mail knowing it wasn't sealed? That's dumb.

[Slayer]

The clerk would probably go through the mail for her in that case. Though I always see clerks checking envelopes after they take them from customers. Maybe they don't do that there or they forgot.

If it was recent, hopefully it was easy to track down. If not, someone's gonna get a free card.

[bhskittykatt]

Once, my mom had a check for me in an envelope. She hadn't sealed it, since she was going to write a letter to mail with it, but my dad decided to be "helpful" and mail it for her before she got that chance. Luckily, the check was still in there when we got it.

So, it can happen.

[Sapphire Silk]

I'm still trying to figure out how she knew the letter wasn't sealed.