SAN DIEGO - The ashes of a US Army veteran from Alpine were delivered to the wrong address, according to the family.
Carole Irwin said she sent an urn with some of her late father's ashes and dog-tags to her brother in Washington, but the package fell off the mail truck and was repackaged with the wrong address.
A coworker's phone message left Irwin speechless.
"[My coworker] tells me 'hey, did you deliver a package up north with your dad's urn and dog tags?'" Irwin said. "I was flabbergasted because I never even told really anybody about it."
A post office mix-up sent the urn to a woman in Seattle, who contacted a local news station to find the sender. The dog tags helped the news station trace the package back to Irwin, she said.
"They could have just went ahead and just thrown it away. This person took the time to figure out where this came from," said Irwin.
Instead of being irate, Irwin said she wasn't surprised. She said her father was a geologist and Vietnam veteran who always was the adventurous type.
"I was just like 'well I guess he wanted to see Seattle," Irwin said. "I'm just so fortunate that it got into the right hands."
