As Daya Modayur was walking away from a mailbox in Dartmouth, NS, recently, she noticed something that worries all mail users: She had forgotten to put a stamp on her postcard.
“I was already halfway across the street before I thought of it,” she said.
Modayur, who made the postcard for her grandmother at the free Palifax summer program at the MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning, thought it was lost, but Elizabeth Tuck, youth program coordinator at the YWCA Halifax, had an idea.
“I went into problem-solving mode,” she said. “I thought the most effective way would be to just leave a note and ask them to either send the postcard back or put a stamp on it.”
Tuck posted the notice on the mailbox and soon received a written reply saying, “Found and stamped! Have a nice day!”
A letter addressed to Canada Post. (Source: CTV News Atlantic)
“It was really nice,” Modayur said. “It will be nice for (my grandmother) to see it. She was on a road trip and traveled all over Canada. She sent me and my cousins a bunch of postcards, so I thought it would be cool to return the favor.”