After 48 Years, Woman Finally Gets Her Job Application Letter

Tizi Hodson was in for a pleasant shock when the long-lost letter arrived nearly five decades after she sent it.

A 70-year-old woman, who applied for the job of a motorcycle stunt rider 48 years ago, has received her application letter. Tizi Hodson, a former stuntwoman, was in for a pleasant shock when the long-lost letter arrived nearly five decades after she sent it. The letter, written in January 1976, was trapped behind a drawer in a post office all these years but has now found its way back to her.

It came with a handwritten note: “Late delivery by Staines Post Office. Found behind a draw. Only about 50 years late.” This unexpected arrival rekindled memories of a dream she nurtured in her youth. “I always wondered why I never heard back about the job. Now I know why,” Ms Hodson told the BBC.

Ms Hodson recalled she typed the application in a London flat, eagerly awaiting a response that never came. “Every day I looked for my post, but there was nothing there, and I was so disappointed because I really, really wanted to be a stunt rider on a motorcycle,” she shared. “It means so much to me to get it back all this time later,” she said.