Recently, several dozen letters from West Germany arrived in Bolesławiec over the course of a few days. In a beautiful, ornate envelope was a letter informing a particular woman or man—a resident of the small Bolesławiec district (?)—in German that, in the draw of a South German class lottery, the addressee had won the fantastic sum of 5 million German marks on ticket number XY!
The addressees’ hearts began beating faster and their cheeks flushed. Many believed in their great good fortune without considering that they had not purchased lottery tickets, so how could they have won even a pfennig? Let us add that the sender of these letters was a German from Stuttgart, the owner of a lottery agency.
Did someone from Bolesławiec compile an address list for the German? Another matter is also intriguing: did similar letters arrive in other towns? And why were the letters franked with Dutch postage stamps and most probably sent from the Netherlands? Perhaps postage there is lower than in West Germany?
The undersigned was also fortunate enough to receive such a letter...