Hand calligraphy & post office don't mix?

[badgercat]

I'm sorry to hear about your lost hard work. Hopefully it will turn up.

Do you have any sort of confirmation that it was because of the calligraphy? As someone else mentioned, maybe there was a problem at the place where you posted them. Or an honest mistake of insufficient postage, if you mailed them yourself with stamps rather than taking to a post office? I'm not sure how the Canadian post works, if they would return to sender in that case or forward it on anyway with a envelope request to make up the postage (this has happened with a package from my boyfriend's mom that she accidentally shorted by $0.50).

I'm genuinely curious why you chose not to include a return address. That's something that was beaten into my head by my mom, so I can't imagine ever not including it.

Of course, the postal service is not perfect, but I'm still amazed that I can send a letter across the country in a few days for less than half a dollar. Also, my uncle is a long-time USPS letter carrier, and seeing how hard he works I've found that I tend to have a little more sympathy for the postal service than many others do.