Joan Najbar a Minnesota woman was shattered when a letter sent to her son, returned to her with the word “deceased” stamped on the envelope. Son Sam Eininger, was serving with the National Guard in Iraq in 2006 when the letter was returned. Joan immediately contacted the Red Cross and learned her son had not been killed. She is suing the federal government claiming emotional distress and negligence. The U.S. Postal Service found no evidence of negligence after Najbar filed a claim in 2008. The government’s response to her lawsuit has not yet been filed. Najbar was a vocal critic of U.S. military policy and her attorney is investigating whether Najbar’s anti-war protest on the steps of a Duluth post office days before the letter was returned had anything to do with the stamp. Now we think Mrs. Najbar is going harsh on the government, after all it’s a mistake and we all make them. It’s not like some post office weirdo did that intentionally because he had arch family rivalry with the Naj
Like any mother of a soldier, Joan Najbar was shocked when a letter she sent to her son in Iraq was returned to her with the word “DECEASED” marked on it. “It was right next to his name, so I was just like in shock and I didn’t know what to do first,” she recalled. She contacted the American Red Cross, who had her son call her back the same day: He was alive and well. Joan Najbar has filed suit against the United States Postal Service (Fox21Online.com) But according to Fox21Online.com, Najbar was enraged when someone with the United States Postal Service in her hometown of Duluth, Minnesota, dismissed the mistake. Over the next two years, she filed complaints with the Postal Service, which were all dismissed, so she took the next step, hiring a lawyer and filing a lawsuit. She’s afraid the same mistake will happen to other families and wants the USPS to take accountability. The current policy on the “DECEASED” stamp is that it can’t b