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About 2/3 weeks ago 2 birthday cards dropped through my letter box with 'Dollie' written on the front.
I put an entry on a couple of local facebook posts asking if anyone knew Dollie, asked nearby neighbours and also went to my corresponding house number in the next road. Both have same names but one is Avenue and other is Grove, which causes problems from time to time.
One card was unsealed and appeared to be for a female child, no info, so i guiltily opened the other one and there was £25 inside. Obviously i have no intention of keeping the money but i would think by now the senders would have realised and come back to my house. So what do i do now? Hang on to cards and money forever?
I would have opened them to to see if they had any extra details inside, I also would have gone to the same numbered house in the area, so to be fair you have tried to find the right owner, I would just hang on to the cards to see if the person who posted them through your letter box returns to claim them back.
tara73ziva yes as I said above posted on a couple of community accounts and just gave the area of my address. Sorry this was meant to reply to PayItForward.
Oh dear. It’s one of those things - you’ve tried the same few things that i would have. Did you post on social media? Wouldn’t give your full address - just approximate location
Let's call some detectives. Justin Case and Ineda Clu 
- Who dropped it RM or a sender.
- Any cctv from that day
- Any sender's name
- Any recipient other details. Like happy ?th birthday.
- Look on social media for a pictures from birthday, as its a child look on a parents profile if you know the surname
- Speak to your local Postman
- Opening someone's letter is a No-no.
SebK84 1. Don't think it would have got anywhere with just Dollie as an address lol.
- No cctv.
- Only 'from aunty Cindy'
- No
- You've gotta be kidding lol
- Don't think he'd know who Dollie is.
- It wasn't via royal mail and how else could I get clues?
I actually didn't open until today as I thought 2/3 weeks was ample time for it to be discovered they hadn't got to Dollie and come to claim, I was considering throwing in recycling had they been just cards, good thing I didnt
Lynibis it's a birthday card. People usually write happy 4th, 5th, 12th birthday on the card especially if they put money in it and you received 2 cards not just one. Knowing the name and possible date of birthday you can find by suspected address, business registered on a companies house with name and surname of parents. I can imagine by knowing this you could check on social media.
Also as you said couple cards so was it one person who left both or cards from 2 different people
SebK84 there wasn't an age and I think both cards were left by same person as the one word Dollie was the same writing. Judging by the names I think the other one was probably cousins, kids of aunty Cindy (I wonder if there's another aunty called Barbie, there seems to be a dollie connection
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Tbh there’s not really much you can do other than what you’ve done especially if there’s no return address etc
Just hold on to them and see if someone comes knocking, this happened to us years ago, I had the card for ages, I eventually opened it and there was £15 inside, nobody ever came, so I threw the card and kept the money, what else can you do
martinlufc5637 thanks for that, I have been in a real quandary over this, so glad I am not the only one this has happened to.
I will hold fire for 3 or so months and then give it to charity, although I will have no way of proving it if they then come knocking.
Lynibis I just put it in a draw and forgot about it because nobody ever came to claim it, I came across it probably 3 years later, threw the card & kept money
martinlufc5637 don't blame you, depending how broke I am in 3 years time I might do same!
I think you've done as much as you possibly can at the moment, you'd think Cindy would wonder why she hasn't received a thank you for the cards and money from the recipients! I would also have opened them. Think your quite right in deciding to just hold onto them and wait and see if you get a knock on the door.
TiaTia thank you I will definitely do that. In my experience youngsters rarely send thanks for gifts these days, I actually stopped sending money to my nieces in their teens because they never said thank you and I didn't even know if they had been received. Was cross with my brother for not encouraging them to say thanks.
You have so far done everything you can to find the person/s intended for . I would hang on just incase they receive a phone call etc. are you she no one down your road and got Wong number? If you have road WhatsApp group I would check there too.
You’ve done all you can really tbh. You went above and beyond in trying to locate the person. As for the £25, donate it to charity 
Fair play you've tried to find the owner. You've done more then most have. Don't feel guilty for opening it as you had genuine reasons to do so. I.e find the owner
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