Last weekend, I wrote and sent a whole pile of Christmas cards.
This morning I got a message from my mum: “Received empty envelope from you. Did you forget to put the card in?” I wrote all the cards then had Jan sign them, after which I distinctly remember taking each card and placing it in its correct envelope (which I had previously addressed). At the end, no cards were left over, and since I had opened each card to compare the name inside with the name on the envelope it’s unlikely that one card ended up inside another so that two went in the same envelope. No stray cards have turned up here since, either. Nevertheless, my mum has no card. My brother’s, which went to the same address, has arrived perfectly fine. So where is my mum’s card?
Did the envelope somehow come open en route and lose its card only for some good samaritan at the post office to seal it again (without noticing that the envelope was, in fact, empty)? Does my mum have a postman with a fetish for cards with other people’s names on? In which case, why did my brother’s arrive… did the postman not like his name? Why would anyone steal a Christmas card… that’s all that was in the envelope. No money, no chocolate – just a card with a pretty picture on the front. Am I being censored? And if so, what exactly do they think “Hope 2013 is the best year ever!” is code for? It’s a mystery!
Confuzzledom 
How annoying. I blame the elves.
Pesky little creatures!
Weird!
Very!
The mail fairies are at it again!
Must be!
How very strange!
It is, isn’t it? If someone opened it looking for money you’d think they would throw the whole thing away so it looked like it got lost in the post, not send the envelope on to its destination alone!
I received a parcel last month with an envelope that had apparently contained a letter, securly taped to the front. The tape had been removed and the envelope opened. No letter inside – the postie must have stolen it!