LETTER ARRIVES OVER 100 YEARS LATE

[Astoness]

amazing...i too would have opened the letter and felt duty bound to try and trace any living rellies

Crystal Palace letter arrives more than 100 years late

A letter sent from Bath in February 1916 arrives in south London more than a century late.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[mikejee]

I am a bit surprised the post office did not try and put a surcharge on it for insufficient postage

 

[NOTSHARP]

I am a bit surprised the post office did not try and put a surcharge on it for insufficient postage

And a storage charge for 100 years.



Steve.

 

[aston lad]

Sorry I don't believe that, I think some one has reposted that a few days ago.

 

[Astoness]

the report says that the letter arrived at the flat in 2021 have to admit though that it is a very unusual but not impossible thing to happen

 

[Gerard_RM]

This was quite a common thing when I was with Royal Mail, people found old letters and popped them into a post box to see what happened. It was even more common with postcards.

 

[mw0njm.]

the post office are very good at finding people i had some QSL postcards arrive from italy i had left the address in brum on the cards 20 years ago but they found me here in the sticks

 

[Janet Hunt]

Royal mail have a National Returns centre in Belfast. All undelivered mail and parcels get sent there. They attempt to track the owners. They receive up to 20 million undeliverable items each year. Sometimes these are just uncollected items, at other times it is due to insufficient address, no longer an address or no return address.