Letters claiming to contain messages from dead children have reportedly been turning up in letterboxes across Auckland.
Recipients are told their recently deceased child is doing "very well" in the afterlife, the author claiming to have received the good news from angels.
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A number of the letters have been posted on Facebook pages local to Waiuku and Franklin, but there are reports similar messages have been delivered to people on the North Shore and Ellerslie.
"This message has come to me from the angels who are with you," one letter reads. "They wish you to know that your dear daughter is with you in spirit. Your daughter is very well and she would like you to be happy to know that you will meet again in heaven some day.
"Take care and be blessed."
While the letters are addressed correctly, none of the recipients who posted them to Facebook have recently lost a child.
"I probably should just put it in the bin and forget about it but it's not so easy not to be offended by it," the recipient wrote on the Franklin Grapevine Facebook page. She also received a 'with sympathy' greeting card.
Police told Newshub they are aware of "several reports of these letters across Auckland".
Though it's unclear what law, if any, the writer has broken, police said they are "currently looking into the matter and are making some enquiries".
Though the envelope containing the letter bore a stamp, the recipient said it didn't appear to have been processed by NZ Post, so was probably delivered by hand.
"By sharing it I'm hoping it can seem less personal to anybody else unfortunate enough to have been in the firing line and fingers crossed it will stop whoever is writing them."
Not everyone on the Franklin Grapevine Facebook page thought she should bother, though.
"There are psychics out there and it seems like a nice message to me? Not a sick joke at all," wrote one person.
"I dont actually see whats wrong with it...nothing in the card is threatening or malicious...and it seems like tgey are trying to be comforting [sic]," wrote another.
The general consensus however, was that it was rather creepy.
Newshub has contacted the recipient for more details on the letter she received.
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