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  1. #1

    Jan 2008
    sacramento , ca
    Ace 150, Bounty Hunter VLF
    8

    Great to be a letter carrier!

    Found ten dollars rolled up in a ball on the sidewalk last Tuesday a few steps from where I park to start my route. Wednesday , on another part of my route, found folded one dollar bill in gutter. Donut and coffee money! Last year , I found a crumpled lotto ticket and found it it was worth 5 dollars. Always keeping my eyes open !!!!

  2. #2
    Charter Member
    us
    Jan 2010
    Prudhoe Bay, AK
    1,090
    7 times

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    Quote Originally Posted by 1960vw
    Found ten dollars rolled up in a ball on the sidewalk last Tuesday a few steps from where I park to start my route. Wednesday , on another part of my route, found folded one dollar bill in gutter. Donut and coffee money! Last year , I found a crumpled lotto ticket and found it it was worth 5 dollars. Always keeping my eyes open !!!!
    Years ago when I was in the Army, they made the entire company responsible for the upkeep of the main road leading into our post.
    Each week a platoon would have a "Police Call" on that 1/2 mile stretch of road. We found many items, some I can mention here and
    some I can't.. What I did find was about 20 lottery tickets all banded together with a rubber band. No way to tell who the owner was so I slipped them into one of my BDU pockets. Later that night, my wife and I went to the local Safeway grocery store and
    had them check the tickets. $572 dollars on one of them and $141 dollars on another. In 1982, $713 dollars was almost my months pay, a small fortune at the time. Never seen another ticket on that stretch of road over the next year that we had to
    "Police" it.

    Whoever tossed them out the window, tyvm from the bottom of my heart.....
    [R.I.P. Rich Hartford - Champion CRH of All Time]

  3. #3
    us
    Jul 2009
    302

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    When I was a young kid my dad had a house he rented out, in the basement was a nice blackboard and when we went to remove it from the wall, folding money came down from behind... It was only a couple of bucks but to a kid who's weekly allowance was a quarter it was a treasure trove.....

  4. #4
    us
    Jul 2004
    Shelbyville or any yard where the owner will let me detect!
    ace 250
    19,780
    3 times
    Metal Detecting
    Banner Finds (1)

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    Im always looking at the sidewalks when I walk,
    no telling what someone might throw away or lose.
    ALLEN

  5. #5
    us
    May 2009
    559
    2 times
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    one time when i was walking up to the gas station with my sister i found a scratch ticket on the ground and looked at it and could have sworn it was a $1 dollar winner but my sister said it was not a a winner but i took it to the gas station and had them check it out it was a $1 dollar winner then my sister told me to buy another scratch ticket and i won $30 dollars off of it.

  6. #6
    us
    Oct 2011
    North Texas
    Fisher F4
    434
    All Types Of Treasure Hunting

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    found $30 in a trash can at Six Flags when i was a kid! I couldn't believe i finally had money to buy what my parents wouldn't buy me. Now that i am older i know why they wouldn't buy it, but at the time i just thought they were mean!

  7. #7

    Feb 2008
    1,448
    5 times

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    Sometimes a woman will get a mad on and toss her wedding ring out the window going down the
    expressway. I would not have known that if I hadn't been walking and eyeballing. Some people
    can't do both, takes practice.

  8. #8
    us
    Feb 2010
    118

    Re: Great to be a letter carrier!

    I have a rule as a letter carrier. If I find it (money) in the yard of a house, I put it in their mailbox. If it's from the sidewalk out I always.....................ah, turn it in to the proper authorities, yah,thats the ticket.

 

 

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