A stack of unopened fan mail addressed to country singer Taylor Swift was found in a dumpster in Nashville by a local resident.
Local resident of Nashville, Kylee Francescan found heaps of unopened fan mail addressed to country singer Taylor Swift in a dumpster. Not knowing whether the mail was intentionally dumped or was stolen, Francescan collected all the letters in a box and dropped them off at Nashville's WKRN-TV. The letters were found in a dumpster behind an elementary school.
"I didn't know if they were stolen [or] discarded," Francescan said to the station. "So I threw them in a box. And I'm like, 'Somebody needs to let Taylor know.'"
If the fan mail was intentionally dumped, it would be a very unusual act from Swift as she is known for her frequent and healthy interaction with her fans. Francescan seemed surprised as well to find the dump as she herself is aware of how much Swift's fans mean to her.
An official at WKRN revealed that the letters were addressed to Taylor Swift Entertainment, a P.O. Box at a strip mall outside of Nashville and that a representative of the singer periodically retrieves the mail.
Swift's management insisted that the incident was a mistake and they don't usually dump fan mails. Swift's spokesperson Paula Erickson explained that the singer usually receives thousands of letters from fans daily and they are all delivered to her management office. Once they are opened and read, all the letters are recycled.
Erickson said that the only explanation for the unfortunate incident could be that some unopened letters slipped into the pile of letters that were to be recycled. But how the letters landed in a dumpster, rather than a recycle bin still remains a mystery.
The TV station handed over the letters to an officer from Swift's public relations office, who was sent to have the letters "appropriately handled."
