The Post Office That Forgot the Future
Some letters take years to arrive. Others never should.
Catherine worked at a tiny post office that hadn’t updated its system since the 1950s. One day, she found a dusty bag of mail labeled “To Be Delivered When the Time Is Right.”
Curious, she opened one envelope. Inside was a letter written by her own handwriting—dated thirty years in the future. It warned her not to deliver a specific package that would arrive next week.
The climax: When the package came, addressed to a man who didn’t exist, Catherine ignored the warning and sent it anyway. That night, the town’s clocks stopped at midnight. The next morning, the post office was gone—replaced by an empty lot, and a single envelope lying in the grass.
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