A Boy Mailed a Letter to No One in Particular. The Reply Traveled Across the Country

He never imagined anyone would actually write back.

The boy wrote a cheerful letter to whoever might be feeling lonely, sealed it up, and dropped it in the postbox at random.

It bounced from sorting room to sorting room until a postal worker, having a hard week, quietly slipped it into their own bag.

That worker wrote back, and told a friend, who told another, until a small pile of replies came flooding to the boy's door.

Now his class runs a whole letter exchange, sending encouragement to strangers everywhere, all sparked by one hopeful note to nobody.