Marsha Witherspoon had a strange day when she discovered papers strewn on the ground. She had dropped her granddaughter off at daycare and was on her way to breakfast when she noticed something along Brittles Lane and Farrand Street in Henrico County.
“I just saw some papers in the ground, in the street. So I kept driving a little bit, and I said, ‘Wait, that’s mail!'” Witherspoon told CBS 6.
When she turned around, she found a trail of dispersed mail that stretched about a quarter mile.
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“Wow, that could be my mail. In my head, I’m thinking that could be something I’m looking for,” she remarked.
The envelopes were addressed to people all over the state, including Henrico, Fredericksburg, Farmville, and even Appomattox.
According to Witherspoon, she discovered birthday cards, car decals, and checks among the things that had been thrown away.
“The mail was everywhere, coming from everywhere,” Witherspoon explained. “It was so much mail, it felt like we was never going to finish. It was just so much.”
“You don’t realize how important mail is until you’re waiting for something. That could’ve been someone’s check or something life-changing,” she added.
So Witherspoon spent over an hour gathering the discarded mail.
“Just think I always have the mindset that I would want somebody to do it for me. Because that could have been I could have been looking for a check. I could have been looking for my own decals on my truck,” she said.
She picked up the letters, handed them over to a local U.S. Postal Service office and reported the incident.
“It could be a matter of a life and death of a document that was just throughout the window,” she explained. “You don’t understand than the importance of mail or the importance of people waiting for certain documents to come in.”
A USPS representative told CBS 6 that the agency is investigating the incident.
While the U.S. Postal Service investigates the loss of the mail, Witherspoon hopes that her action benefited someone in need.
“Hopefully, it gets to the right place,” Witherspoon told Live5News.
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