One thing for sure: The extremely sloppy writing on the address of the bomb package was probably a tip off that something dangerous could be inside. If the sender was subsequently caught, he probably cursed his inattention to learning cursive in school. Probably the type of wannabe punk who’d rip pages out of his MacLean Method Of Writing compendium to chew
into spitballs.

I wonder if future, ill-starred VPD Chief Walter Mulligan had decent penmanship? The second photo above shows receipt of gravel-and-sand evidence sent to Vance by then Detective Mulligan. A decade or so later, Walter would be famous for all the wrong reasons.