1010 WINS - On-Air, Online, On Demand - National Security: "NEW YORK (AP) It's the kind of holiday mail that might have been tossed aside, discarded like any other piece of junk mail: a special gift offer for a facial at a local spa.
Only the address on the letter no longer exists.
And the woman the letter is addressed to died more than five years ago in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center.
Hundreds of pieces of mail destined for the former World Trade Center still arrive every day at a post office facing ground zero the relics of the unfinished lives of Sept. 11 victims.
Telephone bills, insurance statements, wine club announcements, college alumni newsletters, even government checks populate the bundles of mail. Each one bears the ZIP code once reserved exclusively for the twin towers: 10048.
``I guess sooner or later they'll realize the towers aren't back up,'' said letter carrier Seprina Jones, who handles the trade center mail. ``I don't know when.''" read more
It's sad in the sense that some mail arrives at this address from outdated junk mail lists that have obviously not been purged as just more reminders of what was and no longer is there.
One wonders that when (or if) the tower and site ever gets rebuilt if the will use the same zip code. I hope not.
What I'd like to see (but never will and really dont want, but like to dream about) is a Nuclear warhead launched towards Mecca with that zip code stenciled in red paint on the side of it.
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