Subject: News item -- errant mail in Stanstead, PQ<br/>
Date: Jul 24, 2003 @ 10:23<br/>
Author: Doug Murray (Doug Murray &lt;doug@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-211568472">Letter arrives a century too late<br/>
Last Updated Wed Jul 23 22:05:38 2003<br/>
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STANSTEAD, QUE.-- It appears rain or sleet or snow stopped a few <br/>
members of the U.S. Postal Service after a letter arrived in a small <br/>
Quebec town 101 years after it was mailed.<br/>
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Dated December 19, 1901, the letter arrived at the Stanstead post <br/>
office from a New York post office last week. It came with a notice <br/>
from U.S. postal authorities saying it was found loose in the mail and <br/>
likely had been damaged.<br/>
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The letter arrived in a plastic envelope, says Stanstead postmaster <br/>
Therese Maclure. With an image of Queen Victoria and a two-cent cost, <br/>
the stamp&#39;s appearance made it stand out.<br/>
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&quot;We said &#39;It&#39;s old, look at the stamp. It&#39;s old, it had to be old,&quot; <br/>
said Maclure.<br/>
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The letter had been sent it to Mr. Marcellous Way in Stanstead <br/>
Junction, a town that doesn&#39;t exist any more. In it, Mrs. John Ross <br/>
invites Mr. Way to her Sherbroke home for Christmas holidays.<br/>
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&quot;Dear cousin,&quot; says the letter. &quot;I will try once more to find out if <br/>
you are in the land of the living or not. I will write to both places <br/>
so you will be sure to get it.&quot;<br/>
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Town resident Warren Ross says the signature of &quot;Chat&quot; on the letter <br/>
helped him identify it. The name was his grandmother Charlotte&#39;s <br/>
nickname.<br/>
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&quot;It&#39;s a surprise when you see your grandmother&#39;s name and they&#39;ve been <br/>
gone so long,&quot; said Ross.<br/>
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Stanstead residents say they&#39;re not surprised the letter ended up in <br/>
the U.S. as one of the streets in the town borders both countries.<br/>
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