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 Alane Church, who lives north of Chicago, told NBC's "Today" show
on Thursday that her family got a box of Christmas presents a week
late from an uncle in New York. When they opened it, they found an
extra gift at the bottom — a "beautiful personal" book.
Church said the gifts appeared to have been re-boxed by the U.S.
Postal Service.
The photo book was addressed to "Mama Kaye + Papa Wellington from
Barack, Michelle + the girls." "Mama Kaye" is the Obama girls'
godmother, Eleanor Kaye Wilson, who lives in the south Chicago
suburbs.
"It's very special, very special — private moments of their year of
2013 together," said Church. She said the gift would be sent on to
Wilson.
A White House official acknowledged the mis-delivered gift.
"There was an errant delivery, but we're appreciative of the effort
under way to make sure the gift arrives at the intended destination
soon," the official said in an email.
Neither Wilson nor Church could independently be reached for
comment.
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Sue Brennan, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Postal Service, said in an
email that the agency "takes issues like this very seriously and we
are investigating the matter."
(Reporting by Mary Wisniewski in Chicago and Jeff Mason in
Washington, D.C.; editing by Gunna Dickson)
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