Dead man sent Xmas cards

[Mike]

A US man has stunned friends and relatives by sending them Christmas cards - two months after his death.

The 34 handwritten cards were sent and signed by Chet Fitch, who died in October aged 88, with 'Heaven' given as the return address.

Mr Fitch, from Oregon, wrote that God had allowed him back to Earth specially to deliver the cards, reports the BBC.

His barber, Patty Dean, 57, told the Ashland Daily Tidings newspaper that Mr Fitch had approached her with the idea in 1987, saying he wanted to play one last trick on people after his death.

Mr Fitch wrote the cards and gave them to Mr Dean to post in the run-up to the first Christmas after his death.

The cards showed Mr Fitch square-dancing with his wife Jessie, who herself died in 1995.

"I asked Big Guy if I could sneak back and send some cards," he wrote in the card. "At first he said no; but at my insistence he finally said, 'Oh well, what the heaven, go ahead...'

"Better get back as Big Guy said he stretched a point to let me in the first time, so I had better not press my luck. I'll probably be seeing you (some sooner than you think). Wishing you a very Merry Christmas."

Mr Fitch's daughter, Tangren Alexander, described the card as "sweet and funny. So much like him".

"When I opened his card, all I could think was: 'You little stinker,'" said Debbie Hansen-Bernard, an old friend.

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