"I can't really explain it," said Crane. "This was totally unexpected."
Crane said that this is the first time he could remember his mailbox being empty on a Wednesday.
"There was this one Thursday, about six or seven months ago, when my mailbox was empty, but I was too busy carving our Thanksgiving turkey to even worry about it that much."
Crane was unable to find a correlation between yesterday's unsettling lack of mail and previously observed postal delivery trends.
"I've noticed a pattern where my mailbox seems to be empty every Sunday. But yesterday was a real surprise. I hope nothing bad happened to the mail carrier."
Crane indicated that he was expecting to find a Publisher's Clearing House entry, an appointment reminder postcard from his dentist, and a Val-U-Pak coupon supplement in his mailbox yesterday. The current whereabouts of those items are not known.