Washington Today
7th April 2008
We’ve heard of the U.S. Postal Service losing packages before, but not one containing human remains — in this case, the ashes of a longtime Washington-area resident who was to have been interred with U.S. Navy military honors last Friday at the Quantico National Cemetery.
Guess they should’ve used FedEx.
“We did everything as we usually do,” a representative of Wilke-Clay-Fish said Friday. “We transported the ashes to the post office and sent them registered mail. I could not believe the answers we were getting from one woman at the [Austin] post office who kept saying, ‘They’ll be arriving the next postal day; they’ll be arriving the next postal day.’
“I told her a lot of good that answer’s going to do the DeKay family, which has a funeral scheduled. But she kept repeating, repeating, repeating the same answer.”