To have opened this mystery Christmas card?

[WitBeyondMeasure]

Every year our elderly neighbour from down the street posts a Christmas card through our door. It is not our address or our name. We have seen her walking down the street after posting before but never at a time where we could drop what we were doing to enquire about it - usually elbow deep in nappy changes and feeding kids etc.

Well this morning at 5am I heard the letter box rattle. I was up (thanks kids) so I opened the door and she explained that it has her house number and postcode but it isn't her, and as we are the newest people on the street she thought it was ours.

I've tried to locate the recipients by name on Facebook. I believe the sender may have the wrong postcode and there is a street of the same name in a nearby town so last year I forwarded it.

Would I be unreasonable to open it to see if there is a way of locating the sender?
It sounds strange, but we don't receive many Christmas cards. it seems to be a dying Trend and I worry unnecessarily that it's probably someone of an older generation trying to keep in touch and not having other means..

But then of course it is none of our business. Is there anything else I could try?

If you're resorting to spammy spam Edward, you're probably not as gifted as you think you are.... Sorry.

We get one every year too, eight years so far and the latest is sat on the shelf in the hall. I think one year we had a boast in the post one and could email the people but this one has only names.

Surely you don’t sent cards to people you clearly haven’t spoken to in over a decade? They aren’t the people we bought the house from so it much be well over 10 years.

We get random post.
Over the years this has included porn DVD!s, sex catalogues,
Xmas cards and GcSE certificates! (I’ve only opened the stuff that looks interesting/ doesn’t have return to sender)

My SIL once sent a birthday card to DS. Right house number and road, but the postcode was slightly wrong. I had a knock on the door that evening to a man who had driven over 10 miles to hand deliver the card - he had opened it in error, saw it was a kids birthday card with cash inside, and driven it over so that it got here in time.

Years on and I am still touched by remembering his kindness.

"The inside of the card says "this year??" As if the sender is eager for a reunion." Aw, yes, if you've got time it would be nice of you to drop it round in person.

A few years ago we got a very strange Christmas card. I can't remember if it was addressed to both of us, or just me, but all the details on the envelope were correct. But the card itself wasn't even a Christmas card, IIRC it was a picture of a watercolour painting of a duck; there was absolutely nothing inside at all - no pre-printed message, no greeting of any kind and no signature - it was completely blank. I'm still mystified!

I get one every year but I just bin it. If I opened it I know I’d end up on some crazy mission to track down the senders.

First Christmas in our house I got a Christmas card for another lady.... our address but wrong name.... I just binned it.

2nd year same thing happened. So I opened it and using 192.com ect established it was a lady down the road so I dutifully took her the card. She told me her husband had recently passed and was moving house, he had the address book so she would have to look up the details of who sent the card and let them know of the new addres.

Card came the other day..... can't be arsed she obviously didn't value this person enough to let them know she had moved entirely, although her husband died that was well over a year ago. I also don't have a forwarding address. Half tempted to open and hang on our wall.....

If it was an official letter i would say don't open but it's a Christmas card just open and enjoy the effort of trying to work it out.

We had one the other day addressed to the previous owner.
It made me sad to read the sender hoped to find the recipient well.
He passed away a couple of years ago.
No return address and just signed with a first name.
Bless x

We get a phone call every year from someone trying to connect with a long lost friend. We now have quite a long chat with her about the meaning and value of old friends and the sadness of lost contact details.

We received a card for the previous owner in our old home; I opened it (I wasn’t going to track down the previous owner for a Christmas card) and there was a cheque and a heartfelt letter from their grandmother. They had obviously lost touch years ago and she was reaching back out to her. It had her address inside so we sent her a letter with the cheque explaining that they had moved. I think we gave her as much info about the previous owners as we could so she could track them down. She wrote back to say thank you very much and sent £5 with her letter.

Oh yes, just open it. If you are in luck there will a return address inside, if not you've done nothing wrong and now you've told your neighbour she won't redeliver a card next year.

I still haven't worked who 'Eileen and Roger' are who sent me a card, postmarked somewhere in Surrey, about twelve years ago. It happens.

I think you're making a mountain out of a molehill. Just open it.

She has opened it!

Cancel the cheque