Chippenham George worked for the Post Office and his job was
to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day just before Christmas, a letter
landed on his desk simply addressed in shaky handwriting: 'To God'. With no other clue on the envelope, George
opened the letter and read:
Dear God,
I am an 93 year old widow living on the State pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had £100 in it, which was all the money I
had in the world and no pension due until after Christmas. Next week is Christmas and I had invited two
of my friends over for Christmas lunch.
Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with. I have no family to turn to, and you are my
only hope. God; can you please help me?
Chippenham George was really touched, and being kind
hearted, he put a copy of the letter up on the staff notice board at the main
Fareham sorting office where he worked.
The letter touched the other postmen and they all dug into their pockets
and had a whip round. Between them they
raised £95. [$170 USD] Using an
officially franked Post Office envelope, they sent the cash on to the old lady,
and for the rest of the day, all the workers felt a warm glow thinking of the
nice thing they had done.
Christmas came and went.
A few days later, another letter simply addressed to 'God' landed in the
Sorting Office. Many of the postmen
gathered around while George opened the letter.
It read,
Dear God, Christmas Stories
How can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me?
Because of your generosity, I was able to provide a lovely luncheon for my
friends. We had a very nice day, and I
told my friends of your wonderful gift - in fact we haven't gotten over it and
even Father John, our parish priest, is beside himself with joy. By the way, there was £5 [$10 USD]
missing. I think it must have been those
thieving fellows at the Post Office.
George could not help musing on Oscar Wilde's quote: 'A good
deed never goes unpunished'
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