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Postcard delivered 79 years late
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by nukemdomis | August 17, 2008 at 03:38 pm
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The picture postcard was sent in 1929 from Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, and intended for Mr and Mrs Richardson in East Dulwich, London.
However it was not delivered until a week ago when it finally dropped through the letter box of Arthur Davies and June Nicolopoulos after a delay of nearly eight decades.
Mr Davies, 59, a construction manager, said: "I've heard of delays but this takes some beating – I reckon it's been under a skirting board at a Royal Mail building all this time.
"It's amazing that Royal Mail even delivered it at all after all these years."
The postcard arrived inside a Royal Mail envelope with a sticker reading, "we are sorry that this item has been damaged/delayed in the post".
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at 22:13 on August 17th, 2008
nukemdomis, I like this story. It's good stuff.
My Mother had send a letter from Cameroon in 1964 to a dear friend of her in Germany, they lost contact and in 1992 that friend of her Received the letter via her Brother who still lived in the Family house in Berlin. She looked for my Mother for some time after and they meet for the first time again since 1963, in Strasbourg in 1998! They meet twice a year since 1998! The Post service is reliable, it may take some time, however it will get your mail delivered, well with some luck that is!
at 16:00 on August 18th, 2008
Wow that's amazing Paschen. The US Postal Service is awesome also. I can always count on them when it really matters.
at 22:36 on August 22nd, 2008
nukemdomis, I like this story. It's good stuff. hopefully the correct postage is due. taxman has to get his cut/ ha