A woman who accidentally dropped $800 in cash into a mail drop-off bin is breathing a sigh of relief after the money made its way back to her.
Marcia Bukowski of Depew, New York, was mailing a bundle of Christmas greeting cards on the weekend of Dec. 13 when she mistakenly mailed an envelope containing $800 in $50 bills that was meant to be her mortgage payment, according toWKBW.
Bukowski told the outlet that she eventually contacted a USPS representative who told her the envelope likely was picked up and put into a pile of undeliverable mail to be sorted later. “They have three thousand non-mail related items that they have to go through,” she said.
“I just have to hope that someone out there is honest enough, like me, that they’ll be able to get that money back to me,” she told the outlet at the time.
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Days later, however, theWKBW news team went backto Bukowski’s house to update her on the impact of her story, explaining that viewers offered to pay back the $800 she lost — but as it turned out, just as the cameras were on Bukowski, the grandmother was surprised when her cash was given back to her from a mailperson.
Bukowski’s happy moment wascaptured on-cameradays after she told the news outlet that her financials were “getting really tight now” amid the pandemic.
“They got my money! Oh my God, I gotta open it! I gotta open it!” she shouts excitedly in the clip from her kitchen as reporter Jeddy Johnson cheered with her.
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“Alicia, it’smyenvelope with my $800 in it! I have it!” she tells one person on the phone, as the woman is heard reacting, “Shut the heck up!” on the other end of the line. “I’m so serious!”
“I did not plan any of this I swear to God. I’ve never seen that postal lady,” Bukowski told the reporters of the coincidental moment. “What a relief, what a relief. You know what, a Christmas miracle did happen. Honest to God it did. This is a true miracle.”
source: people.com
