Plenty of kids address letters wrongly, leaving out information that determines whether they're delivered or not.
And while this girl came close, she left out some pretty important stuff when she wrote to her gran from camp.
“To Grandma, From Abby,” wrote 11-year-old Abby from Canada on the envelope. Above it, she wrote her gran’s address, including the postal code to a Perth, Ontario home at ‘R.R. #3.’
The problem? Well, there are some 850 homes at R.R.#3, the rural route where her gran lives.
Luckily, Abby’s letter found its way to a Canada Post employee – a gran herself - who felt saddened at the prospect of the sweet letter being binned.
When her colleague Natasha Villeneuve got wind of it, she turned to Facebook for help, posting a photo of the letter on her site.
“Anyone in Perth know who is a Grandma of an Abby on RR3??,” she wrote beneath the snap. “No return address and we’d love to deliver it!”
The post was so widely shared that when a paramedic was called to RR3 a few days later, he couldn’t help but ask the old lady he was helping if she had a grandchild called Abby. “And she said ‘Well yes I do!’,” Natasha told CBC.
Thanks to Natasha, Facebook and the community spirit that’s still alive and well, Abby’s letter was delivered to her gran just a week after she sent it.
Aww. So nice to see everyone banding together over such a small thing. They must know how much grandmothers love their grandkids.
