HOA Postal Mystery

Certain HOA correspondence will not be sent to our (or any) PO Box by the Commonwealth, so I volunteered my address for those few occasions. No big deal.

Assume that addy is:

XX HOA
c/o JohnK3
26 Peppermint Stick Lane
Candyland, PA 19999

The other day, I received a post with an enclosed opened envelope addressed to me from a kind soul who stated “I believe this belongs to you. How it arrived here is a mystery.”

Her addy is:

Sandy Lollipop
26 Peppermint Stick Lane
New Rockville, AK 31234

In her note, she also mentioned the former name of her town had been New Candyland, but had been changed to New Rockville decades ago.

The letter to me had been sent from Harrisburg, our capital. I figure the PO would toss it into an intra-PA pile and it would move on from there. I also figure nobody at the PO would be aware of a decades-gone burb. I also figure a zip code carries some weight in the sorting process, automated or otherwise.

Any thoughts on why it ended up in Arkansas? Like Sandy, I’m mystified.

I have had mail that was mailed to California... arrive with post marks from arkansas.. and new york when the orignal mailer was sending it from California as well.. go figure. It's the post office.