Ghostly Mail
Crout
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It's the creepiest thing. You know how interdepartmental mailing envelopes are designed to be used over and over, and then discarded once there's no more room for names? Did you ever get an envelope and the last person to use it has been gone (sometimes literally) for years? I have a pile of envelopes in my desk. I just pulled one in absolute pristine condition, except for one signature, which is the signature of an HR guy who left the company over 5 years ago. I once found one from 1992, and once from a woman who was dead for two years. How do these things escape being used up? The one I got this morning originally came from a pile that is maintained by the HR Assistant. That means it MUST have been used by someone else recently, yet all I see is the one signature. It's downright weird I tell you. Or do I have too much time on my hands?
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However, I do agree with you that these envelopes are somewhat weird. We in HR are the biggest users of those envelopes, so we are constantly begging all departments/enterprises to bring their empty ones to the main mail room. Sometimes you grab one that hasn't been used for years. I haven't had something as spooky as it being last used by someone who is dead, but certainly someone who has been gone for a couple years.