2 Calgary families say gift cards lifted from letters in tampering scam

Two Calgary households say they’ve obtained playing cards within the mail in latest weeks that seem to have been sliced open, the present playing cards despatched by households now lacking.

The 2 households have no idea one another.

Kat MacAulay mentioned a card for her husband’s birthday was mailed from Cape Breton on the similar time and place as a card for her niece in RisePEI. Each playing cards contained present certificates from MacAulay’s mother and father.

“We had had a heads up {that a} card that was despatched to my niece who lives on the opposite facet of the nation had been tampered with,” she mentioned.

“I seen that there was a slit down the facet of the cardboard,” mentioned MacAulay.  “It was apparent that it was an ideal good X-Acto slit down the facet.”

Martha MacDonnell mentioned her mom despatched her a card for her birthday, mailed from Shubenacadie Nova Scotia. The cardboard additionally held a $50 present certificates. Like MacAulay, the envelope had a exact slit down one facet. The birthday card was intact. The present certificates by no means arrived.

“I want to see that they take this severely as a result of it looks as if it is not an remoted incident,” MacDonnell mentioned.

Martha MacDonnell mentioned her mom despatched her a card for her birthday, mailed from Shubenacadie Nova Scotia. The cardboard additionally held a $50 present certificates. Like MacAulay, the envelope had a exact slit down one facet. The birthday card was intact. The present certificates by no means arrived.

Each girls contacted Canada Put up to report the incidents, each mentioned they initially obtained a fast reply stating their service ticket had been closed. There was no compensation or additional investigation.

Canada Put up didn’t reply to our questions Tuesday however in a press release earlier this month responding to an analogous criticism, mentioned one attainable rationalization was the playing cards obtained caught in a sorting conveyor.

The opposite criticism, which aired Might 10, was practically equivalent, with a birthday card for a six-year-old initially mailed from Prince Edward Island.

However the “mechanical harm” rationalization does not appear believable to both MacDonnell or MacAulay.

“(Though) it is not unattainable, I discover it tough to consider on this case that that occurred,” MacAulay mentioned.

“I believe that mainly somebody opened my mail and took the present card,” mentioned MacDonnell.