Cape Town – A resident in the Upper Highway area in Durban recently shared her experience of receiving a lost parcel from the post office after 13 years.
According to Northglen News, Sanja Hanekom took to social media to reveal that they found two printouts in their mailbox, indicating an inbound parcel waiting for pickup at their local post office in Kloof on Wednesday.
The documents were difficult to read, but they mentioned a fee of approximately R65 to release the parcel.
“Since we were not expecting a parcel, we were rather confused to discover that a parcel with my husband’s name and our address is held hostage at the local post office. We rushed out to rescue the parcel, mostly because we wanted to see what all this was about. On our way to the post office, the conspiracy theories were in full swing – my hubby’s darkest predictions and mine were in the hope that the parcel may contain stacks of banknotes and a one-way ticket to ‘yours truly’.”
Inside the empty post office, they handed over the printouts and were given a large, heavily taped-up parcel.
The originating postal stamp indicated that it was sent in 2010.
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It turned out that the parcel was sent by Hanekom’s father when their child was born.
Inside the box, they found various items, including interior design magazines, sneakers, flavored teas, a glass teapot set, and two congratulatory cards, News24 reported.
Hanekom shared a picture of the parcel with her father, who initially couldn’t recall sending it.
“I sent my dad a picture of the parcel via WhatsApp. Initially, he could not even remember sending the box, but when I started telling him about the tea and magazines, he started to recall that is the parcel he had sent one month after my daughter Maria’s birth.
“He immediately realised that that was the missing parcel,” Hanekom said.
Maria is now 13 years old.
The post office advised South Africans not to worry about their lost parcels and sarcastically mentioned that the post office would deliver them in due time, as long as the recipients were still alive and at the same address.
The post received mixed reactions, with some expressing shock and anger over the perceived lack of proper services by the South African Post Office.
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Compiled by Betha Madhomu
