A letter from the Post Office

Here's a letter from the Post Office found in a email from my dad. Who knows if the story is actually true. It does sound cute, though.

A letter from the Post Office...

We don't know who replied, but there is a beautiful soul working in the dead letter office  department who understands LOVE..........................

 

Our 14-year-old dog Abbey died last month.

 

The day after she passed away my 4-year-old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey.

 

She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got to heaven, God would recognize her.

 

I told her that I thought that we could, so she dictated these words:

 

Dear God,

Will you please take care of my dog?

Abbey died yesterday and is with you in heaven.

I miss her very much.

 

I 'm happy that you let me have her as my dog even though she got sick.
I hope you will play with her.

She likes to swim and play with balls.

 

I am sending a picture of her so when you see her you will know that she is my dog.

 

I really miss her.

Love, Meredith

 

We put the letter in an envelope with a picture of Abbey & Meredith,
addressed it to God/Heaven.

 

We put our return address on it.

 

Meredith pasted several stamps on the front of the envelope because she
said it would take lots of stamps to get the letter all the way to heaven.

That afternoon she dropped it into the letter box at the post office.

 

A few days later, she asked if God had gotten the letter yet.

I told her that I thought He had.

 

Yesterday, there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch addressed, 'To Meredith' in an unfamiliar hand.

 

Meredith opened it.

Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers called, 'When a Pet Dies.'

 

Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God in its opened envelope.

 

On the opposite page was the picture of Abbey & Meredith and this note:

 

Dear Meredith,

 

Abbey arrived safely in heaven. Having the picture was a big help and I recognized her right away.

 

Abbey isn't sick anymore.

Her spirit is here with me just like it stays in your heart.

 

Abbey loved being your dog.

 

Since we don't need our bodies in heaven, I don't have any pockets to keep your picture in so I'm sending it back to you in this little book for you to keep and have something to remember Abbey by.

 

Thank you for the beautiful letter and thank your mother for helping you write it and sending it to me.

 

What a wonderful mother you have. I picked her especially for you.

 

I send my blessings every day and remember that I love you very much.

 

By the way, I'm easy to find.

I am wherever there is love.

 

Love,
God

People Are Awesome 2013

My dad commented -- I wonder how many of these people are still alive!

My comment -- I think I've seen the fail for each of these stunts on Tosh.0.

Saying Grace

My dad said: You don't have to know Chinese to understand this.
I say: If only I could train my cats to do this!

Dogs vs. mail - this is one of the reasons why email was invented.

Thus reads the subject line on the latest YouTube video my dad has alerted me to.

How is Norma?

I'm getting a lot of jokes from my dad lately. I guess it's better than the anti-government political stuff he sends me.

A sweet grandmother Telephoned St. Joseph's Hospital. She timidly asked,
"Is it possible to speak to someone who can tell me how a patient is doing?"

The operator said, "I'll be glad to help, dear.

What's the name and room number of the patient?"

The grandmother in her weak, tremulous voice said, Norma Findlay, Room 302." 

The operator replied, "Let me put you on hold while I check

with the nurse's station for that room." 

After a few minutes, the operator returned to the phone and said,

"I have good news. Her nurse just told me that Norma is doing well.

Her blood pressure is fine; her blood work just came back normal and

her Physician, Dr. Cohen, has scheduled her to be discharged tomorrow." 

The grandmother said, "Thank you. That's wonderful. I was so worried.

God bless you for the good News." 

The operator replied,
"You're more than welcome. Is Norma your daughter?" 

The grandmother said, "No, I'm Norma Findlay in Room 302. No one tells me crap." 

How men peel apples

My dad recently signed up for Facebook. I never thought he'd do it! Now he sends out Facebook links, too.

IRS going after old debt

Usually I don't put too much stock into what Fox News says. They tend to sensationalize and dramatize their stories. But this email from my dad isn't the first I've heard of this happening. I've seen this reported in other reputable sources. So, I'll pass it along:

Subject: IRS going AFTER OLD DEBT

 

IRS going after decades-old debts from children of debtors ‘unbelievable,’
says Megyn Kelly April 12, 2014 by Michael Dorstewitz

 

The old maxim that you can’t hold children responsible for the sins of their parents no longer applies — at least as far as Washington is concerned.

Congress quietly passed legislation in 2011 lifting the former 10-year statute of limitations on money owed to the government, allowing Uncle Sam to collect debts going back decades. The measure also allows the government to collect from debtors’ children and grandchildren, according to Fox News.

Now, “some 400,000 Americans may see their tax refund checks grabbed by the government,” Fox reported.

Former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams called it “classic abuse” during his Friday appearance on “The Kelly File.”

“Imagine it,” he told Fox News Host Megyn Kelly. Instead of a refund check, “you get a letter from the IRS. And it says, ’40 years ago, your parents got a disability payment that we happened to overpay. … So now we’re taking it out of your tax refund.’”

Think it can’t happen in America? Think again. Fox also reported:

A woman named Mary Grice, whose father died when she was 4 years old in 1977, leaving her mother with five children. Thirty-seven years later, the Social Security administration is claiming that it overpaid someone in her family, but it isn’t sure whom, and is going after Ms. Grice for the alleged debt.

When Megyn Kelly asked Adams what the chances are of the government dropping the debt against Grice, Adams answered, “Zero.”

“This is an administration that loves to suspend laws when they’re inconvenient and not enforce certain laws,” Adams said. “Let’s see if they do it here.”

Fox News host Greta Van Susteren took up the Grace case in her “Off the Record” comment Friday.

In no uncertain terms, she said, the government “stole” $2,996 from Grice’s tax refund for the alleged Social Security overpayment 37 years ago. But it gets even better.

“Social Security told her [Grice], they had no records explaining the debt,” Van Susteren said, comparing the matter to the State Department’s “ho-hum” response to the discovery that it had lost $8 billion in funds while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state.