The Amazing Postal Service
February 2nd, 2007 by Stephen
A Welsh steel worker lost touch with one of his mates, and decided to send him a postcard (pictured here). As he did not have the other man’s address, he put the name on top of the postcard and drew a map of England’s south west peninsular, showing Cornwall, Devon and Somerset. He placed a dot on the map and the words “Somewhere here” pointing tgo the dot.
The post office excelled themselves. They identified the dot as being near to Bude in Cornwall, and sent it to the local sorting office. When it arrived, one of the postmen recognised the name of Peter O’Leary, and successfully delivered the letter just 9 days after posting.
Unfortunately Peter O’Leary could not immediately reply to the sender of the card, because the sender forgot to enclose his own address!
Lol, that’s a great story! I wish our postal service was that motivated! I hate to say that though, I know there are great PO workers in the US, I’ve just had bad luck with ours locally!
Too funny that he forgot to include his own address…makes you think he must not have had much faith that it would find it’s way to his friend!
I am afraid that the Polish Post would toss the postcard…
Yes, the UK Royal Mail actually has a well deserved reputation for trying hard to deliver partially addressed letters. I don’t know how often they fail though.