In the United States if you mail something through the postal service you take a chance. With mail that can take 5 days to go to a city a few hundred miles away. A reputation for delivering thousands of pieces of mail, but at the same time not a huge reputation for speed, quality or ability to be flexible. Wired Magazine continually gets letters mailed to them that took a lot of thought, in that the pieces where individually created and are interesting. That piece is something I tend to look for when I read the magazine. Well I’ve mailed a few “unusual” pieces and have had them returned because the address “wasn’t clear enough”, “wasn’t able to be processed” or just never arrived. So when I read the below article I was skeptical, but more i was jealous.
CRAFTY Paul Bates sent a Christmas card to a long-lost pal in this envelope with NO street name, NO town, NO postcode — yet it arrived!
The steel worker, 48, had forgotten the name of the town workmate Peter O’Leary moved to from Neath, South Wales, three years ago.
But he recalled Peter had pointed it out on a map. So he put a dot on a sketch of the South West Peninsula, wrote “somewhere here” and hoped for the best.
Amazingly the card arrived at Peter’s home in Bude, North Cornwall, nine days later — after his postman recognized the name in a local sorting office.
The pals are now back in contact and plan to meet soon. Peter, 48, now a driving instructor, said: “It was very inventive.”
Tags: Interesting, News, Oddities, Weird
