An intriguing story appeared sometime back in USA Today. It seems that a Miss Candy Postlethwaite received a sizeable check from the Veteran’s Administration. That’s not the strange part. The strange part is that the check was not made out to her, nor did she know the person to whom the check was made out, nor had she ever been in the military.

She put an envelope containing the check back outside for the postman to pick up on his next round. Five days later she got it back in a different envelope. She telephoned the V. A. office in her district and was directed to send the check there. She did--one week later she received the check back, in the same envelope.

Next she mailed it to the Treasury Department office in Kansas City where the check was originally issued along with a certified …