A box of Christmas cookies finally arrived at the home of a New Jersey woman about a month late, and it had some unexpected additions.
The misdirected mail was sent from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania addressed to Pittsgrove, New Jersey, but somehow the package ended up in Afghanistan first.
Bonnie Donohue may never again look at a cookie without thinking about the odyssey of the Christmas cookies from her 91-year-old aunt.
They were packed neatly in a box with a special note, but the cookies, which were sent priority mail before Christmas, didn’t arrive until last Saturday.
It seems that the jet setting cookies went from Bethlehem to Salem County by way of the Bagram military post office in Afganistan. That’s a 13-thousand mile roundtrip.
What Donohue found overwhelming is that soldiers there signed the box.
She said the soldiers could certainly have eaten the cookies, but instead returned them to their rightful recipient
Donohue is now on a mission to bake cookies, and get her family and friends to do the same, for transport to the thoughtful soldiers in Afghanistan.
She’s even planning to call the Girl Scouts to see if they will send their cookies. Some chapters already do via the U.S.O.
As for Aunt Dot’s cookies, they were a little battered by the trip. They were thrown away, but the empty box is full of very special messages
With: abclocal.go.com
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