CANTON, GA – “I know you shouldn’t, but I think kids are usually a lot more excited to get money than a check,” Donna Devery of Cherokee County told 11Alive News on Wednesday.
She and neighbor Kristal Watson admit they know sending cash through the mail is risky and not advised, but that’s how they wanted to surprise several recent high school graduate friends.
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A few days ago they began to hear that most of the congratulation cards they’d mailed last week arrived in torn envelopes, but not the cash…like the one that friend Vickie Hunt’s son received.
“There was a card from Kristal; he said, ‘you may want to let Kristal know that there wasn’t anything in there,” Hunt told 11 Alive.
Kristal Watson contacted the U.S. Postal Service who launched an investigation.
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