So my mom calls me up last Friday. She says she has a slip in her mailbox that is a returned package, but she can not pick it up that day. Fast forward to Monday, she goes to the post office to pick up the returned package. It was sent to my brother. Four years ago. He was killed less than a month after that birthday. So the last birthday package that she sent him four years ago was finally returned, just in time for his birthday which was on Sunday.
Whoa. That's a crazy, sad story. Was your brother a soldier?
You mentioned that your Mom had sent him a birthday present and that it wasn't returned for four years. That makes me think he might have been serving in the military.
No, he was in Thailand, getting his diving master certification. The best guess we can come up with is that the package was sitting in the bottom of a pile somewhere.