This is the kind of thing you only see in movies!

A soldier's letter that's been lost in the mail since World War II is about to make it to a family member of the people it was originally intended for.

Muskegon Postmaster William Rowe said that his mail carrier attempted to deliver the letter to the address listed on the front (313 Washington Street) last fall. That house has been vacant for quite some time, and it wasn't until the carrier took a closer look that he discovered that he was trying to deliver a letter that was originally mailed nearly 70 years ago - it was originally dated June 29, 1945.

The letter was written by Sgt. Myron Cook and was sent from an Army base in Europe. It was mailed to New York and then Muskegon but it doesn't appear to have ever been opened. The envelope has a six cent stamp on the front, and a bar code that proves that someone put it back in the mail in Minneapolis last year. But, no one knows how that person ended up with it, or why they just decided to mail it now.

"We do not know who did it or why they did it. That is a mystery," Rowe told WZZM-13. "Whoever did that wrote to the residents with a new zip code, because they did not have zip codes back in 1945."

The people the letter was addressed to - Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Sensabough - have both passed away, but thanks to the internet a connection was made with a fourth grade teacher in Florida.

Now the granddaughter of the Mr. and Mrs. R.D. Sensabough will receive the letter sent to her grandparents.

The letter will be sent Friday using the post office's Priority Express Mail. It will be received by the postmaster in Winter Haven, Florida (who coincidentally was the Postmaster in Muskegon before taking the job in Florida).

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