Florida woman forced to forfeit lotto prize after USPS loses ticket
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Jackie Salo
September 30, 2020 | 10:32am
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A Florida woman says she was forced to forfeit her lotto prize after the US Postal Service lost her winning ticket in the mail.
Sue Burgess, of Hernando County, said she was thrilled to discover earlier this summer that she snagged $1,000 in the state’s Second Chance Lottery game,
news station WFLA.
“I was elated. It was like winning a million dollars to me,” Burgess told the outlet.
But at the time, she couldn’t claim her winnings at any of the local lottery offices since they were closed due to the pandemic.
She followed the state lottery’s instructions and went to the post office to send in her ticket via certified mail, the outlet reported.
Burgess said the ticket, however, never made it to the lottery office in the one-week time frame required to claim the prize.
Her tracking information last showed the ticket in transit on Aug. 12 at a Tallahassee post office, WFLA reported.
“They said, ‘We have not received this ticket.’ They said, ‘No ticket, no prize,’” said Burgess, whose prize money went to an alternate winner. . .
