The Missing Birthday Card
@Kouponkaren (5500)
United States
September 20, 2023 11:44pm CST
It was my husband's birthday on Saturday and a relative of ours sent him a card with a gift card in it 10 days ago. This relative lives one state over from us so I am thinking my husband's birthday card has met a terrible fate!
The suspicious thing is I sent this relative's spouse a birthday card with a gift card in it in May. All that arrived was the birthday card, with nothing inside but a slit across the side of the envelope. It looked like someone slit it and shook to gift card out, then sent the card on its merry way.
I don't think we should be sending each other gift cards anymore. Something seems fishy with either their post office or ours.
Have you ever gotten a card in the mail with a gift card or money missing from the inside?
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11 responses
@AmbiePam (102049)
• United States
21 Sep 23
That happened to my sister's anniversary card my mom and dad sent her and her husband one year. It had a $75 gift card in it. My brother-in-law called his post office to complain because he had noticed his mail looked like it had been opened before. My sister cried.
If I send a gift card, I send it in a regular looking envelope no one would suspect had a gift card, or I tape up the card so it isn't possible to slit it open. And, I admit, I left a note on the inside of a birthday card that read, "Before you steal this gift card, mail person, remember God sees you, and you are committing a crime!" I did that about fifteen years ago, granted, but in case someone tried to steal again, I thought I would give them a warning.
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@Marilynda1225 (86004)
• United States
21 Sep 23
I hate sending anything in a card these days. It's certainly weird that your sent card was tampered with and that your husbands never arrived. The last time I sent a birthday card with a gift card I put it in a bubble envelope so that it wouldn't look like a card. Thankfully it arrived intact.
@RebeccasFarm (95744)
• Arvada, Colorado
21 Sep 23
The US Mail is a travesty..everything is stolen these days. Sorry this happened..I do not send things in the mail anymore. I had too many things go missing.
These days, there are ways to send online gift cards, but now, even anything can be hacked.
@jstory07 (145452)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 Sep 23
No that has never happened and not right when it does. Someone stole the gift card along the way.
