SPRINGFIELD, Vt. -It’s been two weeks since John Shaffer received the package at his sister’s house in Springfield. But his disappointment over what he found inside is still palpable. “Pops always said he wanted to come home,” Shaffer said.

The package was supposed to contain an urn holding some of his late father’s remains. The rest are in Florida where he passed away from cancer last year. “His parents are buried up here — a little cemetery in Bellows Falls — and he just said it would be good to be taken home. So that’s where he’d be close to gram and gramps. That’s why I figured I would bring part of him home. At least he is with his parents,” Shaffer said.

Shaffer’s finance mailed the package from Florida. The Cocoa, Florida resident was already in Vermont. When he received it, he knew immediately something was wrong — torn edges, crumpled corners and tape covered it. “And to see the box, the condition it was when I got it, I was like kind of freaked out because I’m like, I hope everything is in there. And then when I started digging through and come to find out he is not there, I got emotional — between getting emotional and getting mad,” Shaffer said

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