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The Woman Who Mailed Letters from the Dead Letter Office
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Summary
June 1998. The dead letter office in the basement of the Marston County Post Office. I worked the night shift sorting mail that would never be delivered — envelopes with no return address, no stamp, no zip code. Just a name and a town, written in a hand I started to recognize. The letters came every Tuesday at 2:47 AM, postmarked from a zip code that didn't exist. I opened one. It was addressed to my mother, who died when I was nine. The handwriting was hers. The postmark said 'Riverton, Texas' — a town that was flooded and evacuated in 1957. I still have thirty-two of them in a shoebox. I haven't opened another. But every Tuesday, at 2:47 AM, I'm standing at the loading dock, waiting. #DeadLetterOffice #MarstonCounty #LettersFromTheDead #PostOffice #NightShift #RivertonTexas #Undelivered #Handwriting #1998 #TuesdayNight #Shoebox #Grief #Unsent #FloodTown #FexingoHorror #HorrorPodcast #TheLonelyChapter #LunaReads Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo