LAST WEEK my husband was handed our post and a couple of parcels.
It wasn't until the postman had gone that my husband realised one of the parcels is addressed to someone at our address in Lincoln but not of this household, a Mrs Jean Reading. There was no return address on the parcel so we didn't feel it was any u
se putting the parcel back in the post.
As I do a lot of family history research I felt I may be able to track down the correct person and so I searched the Lincoln electoral roll for Jean but found nothing conclusive.
I opened the parcel hoping to find a letter inside with the sender's details on. Nothing but two presents, one birthday, one Christmas. And strangely, no cards. It occurred to me that the cards may be inside the presents so I carefully opened them too. And indeed the birthday card revealed that the senders were a family named Mark, Mich, Tom, Tips, Sophie & Hamish and the presents suggest that this family have recently been on holiday to Kenya. The parcel was posted on November 19 from a post office in postcode region LE16 which is Market Harborough.
I am emailing the Lincolnshire Echo and the Harborough Mail in the hope that you could appeal to your readers for anyone who could ask either Mrs Jean Reading or Mark, Mich, Tom, Tips, Sophie, & Hamish to contact the newspapers.
I haven't told anyone what the presents are so that would be a fail-safe to make sure only the genuine people come forward.
I really don't like having these presents sat around where they don't belong and would love to be able to pass them on to Mrs Reading or back to the senders who obviously went to a lot of trouble to choose gifts and post them. Thank you!
Sally Langley,
Lincoln.
