SRCL2 Sandbox

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: At present, complete containment of SCP-XXXX is not possible. Any and all known instances of SCP-XXXX are to be monitored at all times, and immediate measures are to be taken by the Foundation to cease all operations at postal centers housing instances of SCP-XXXX. Once a postal center housing an instance of SCP-XXXX has its operations officially shut down, all postal centers within a 100-mile radius are to be closely monitored for signs to see if any manifest an instance of SCP-XXXX, at which point the operational shutdown process repeats.

At present, manifestations of SCP-XXXX appear to be exclusive to postal centers of the United States Postal Service (USPS). The Foundation has provided significant funding to the USPS in order to fund the destruction and reconstruction of postal centers in order to facilitate this process, and several Foundation-approved persons within the US government have been made aware of SCP-XXXX and its anomalous properties in order to assure swift action in the event of a new manifestation of SCP-XXXX.

Due to the aftermath of Incident XXXX-λ, personnel involved with the containment of SCP-XXXX are to only remain active in its containment for a maximum period of one month, after which they must be reassigned to other duties for at minimum one year before they can be reassigned to SCP-XXXX (see Incident Report XXXX-λ).

Description: SCP-XXXX is a postal department entitled "Office of Dead or Dying Letters" which manifests at currently operational postal centers of the United States Postal Service (USPS). Multiple instances of SCP-XXXX can be active simultaneously, with the largest documented number of simultaneous instances being 27. The manifestation of SCP-XXXX at a postal center poses no problem or confusion amongst personnel currently working at the affected center, and when asked about it postal workers at the affected center will talk as if the department has always been there.

The declared purpose of SCP-XXXX appears to be that of a dead letter office, or department designed to sort and process undeliverable mail. SCP-XXXX's anomalous properties manifest arbitrarily and at varying frequencies, and can affect all locations and households normally serviced by the affected postal center. Through means currently unknown, objects within the postal center's range will disappear and reappear within SCP-XXXX in packaging as if being delivered by mail. The objects affected by SCP-XXXX appear to be arbitrary, with the one exception that they must be something that is able to be packaged and sent through the mail. No changes to the objects are made during the disappearance and reappearance process unless the object in question must be altered in order to become acceptably packaged for mail delivery. Objects affected by SCP-XXXX range from small objects and documents that remain intact to large pieces of furniture that appear within SCP-XXXX dismantled. The owners of objects taken by SCP-XXXX are aware of their disappearance, but draw no connection to SCP-XXXX's involvement, and in most cases will not be further affected by SCP-XXXX in any way. In nearly all cases, objects that disappear have been inorganic (see Incident Report XXXX-λ).

Despite SCP-XXXX being labeled as an official department of the postal center at which it manifests, no postal workers at the affected center are assigned to work in SCP-XXXX and no other entities spawn to work within SCP-XXXX. Instead, individuals that inquire about missing mail at affected centers have their inquiry redirected to SCP-XXXX. Individuals that spend more than a few minutes within SCP-XXXX have a high likelihood of becoming an instance of SCP-XXXX-A. Instances of SCP-XXXX-A will begin to work ceaselessly within SCP-XXXX, sorting the letters and packages that appear within. The appearance of new instances SCP-XXXX-A receives no adverse response from postal workers at the affected center, believing SCP-XXXX-A to be a longstanding worker of the department. Despite their belief that they are processing undeliverable mail, work done by instances of SCP-XXXX-A amounts to nothing more than moving mail around the room aimlessly, as no item that appears within SCP-XXXX is ever willingly removed by SCP-XXXX-A or postal workers at the affected center. Instances of SCP-XXXX-A will make no attempt to do anything other than work on processing mail, including neglecting basic functions such as eating and sleeping. Instances of SCP-XXXX-A that are left on their own within SCP-XXXX will eventually expire from dehydration or exhaustion. The corpses of such instances of SCP-XXXX-A will at some point vanish from SCP-XXXX through unknown means.

Any attempts to monitor the interior of SCP-XXXX through audiovisual means have proved inconclusive, resulting in the disappearance of surveillance equipment via unknown means. An instance of SCP-XXXX-A that is forcefully removed from within SCP-XXXX will attempt to return to SCP-XXXX, even in a state of extreme sleep deprivation or exhaustion. These attempts will grow increasingly violent the further away SCP-XXXX-A is from SCP-XXXX. Once SCP-XXXX-A is outside of SCP-XXXX's area of effect, they will finally return to their normal state with no recollection of their time within SCP-XXXX.

Incident Report XXXX-λ: The following report was issued by the research team overseeing the containment following the death of Researcher Neale.

Due to the perceived details concerning the death of Researcher Neale, we are now instating an official term of service for working with SCP-XXXX, to be reflected in SCP-XXXX's Special Containment Procedures. At the time of his death, Researcher Neale had been assigned to SCP-XXXX for 2 months and 7 days. On the morning of ██/██/20██, Researcher Neale was declared a missing person by the Foundation after vanishing some time the previous evening. Due to his involvement with SCP-XXXX, Foundation operatives searched the 4 locations of SCP-XXXX that were geographically closest to Researcher Neale's last known whereabouts (SCP-XXXX-231, -245, -301, and -358).

Despite Researcher Neale not appearing as an instance of SCP-XXXX-A in any of the searched locations, examination of packages within each instance of SCP-XXXX revealed the corpse of Researcher Neale within SCP-XXXX-245. Researcher Neale's body had been cleanly dismembered into six pieces (arms, legs, torso, and head) with each piece wrapped in brown paper and bubble wrap and stored in its own package. Examination of each of these body parts revealed that major internal organs were also removed through unknown means, which resulted in further discoveries of packages containing Researcher Neale's heart, brain, large intestine, lungs, and stomach. Thirty-four separate envelopes were also discovered, two of which contained Researcher Neale's eyeballs and the remaining thirty-two each containing one of Researcher Neale's teeth. Despite the state of the body, Researcher Neale's cause of death is at current unknown, as is the source of the dismemberment.

Foundation personnel are currently theorizing that the cause of this death was due to prolonged involvement with SCP-XXXX, as at the time Researcher Neale was the Foundation member who had spent the longest stretch of time assigned to SCP-XXXX. Unless future incident proves this theory otherwise, we will continue to instate a mandatory maximum assignment time of 1 month to work involving SCP-XXXX, with a mandatory annual time period between assignments to SCP-XXXX. Should this theory prove inaccurate or there are any additional developments in the containment or known properties of SCP-XXXX, this report and all information within are to be stricken from the official containment procedures and archived.