Postal Service Oddity

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A couple of weeks ago I accidentally mailed two letters without stamps or a return address. Today I received one of them back from the post office – they had opened the letter, put the contents in a new envelope and mailed it back to me.

My question is this – wouldn’t it have been just as easy (and cost the same) to forward it on to the person I mailed it to in the first place?