Originally Posted by Stormer

...I think some of the machinery the Post Office uses to sort items can occasionally cause things of odd shapes to be squeezed out of envelopes, like if it goes between some rollers because it's been sorted as a letter. Or occasionally something might get snagged somewhere and cause just enough damage for whatever's inside to work its way out.

I think your attitude towards this is admirable, fireflyed, wanting to make things right -- it's good to know there's honourable people in our collecting community!