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Reiner Torheit
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« on: 04:46:24, 31-10-2007 »
If you practice very, very hard,  one day the Postie might deliver your letters...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7070336.stm
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« Reply #1 on: 08:12:10, 31-10-2007 »
Stories about how letters get delivered from the vaguest of addresses appear in the news from time to time but I have experience of the opposite.

I had a letter returned some months after posting it (it had been languishing in a sorting office in Belfast in the meantime) because the Post Office thought it undeliverable. The problem was that in the post code, what was meant to be a 5 looked like an S. It was enought to baffle them.
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« Reply #2 on: 13:40:34, 31-10-2007 »
That's a very clear warning not to upset the Royal Mail - because they know where you live!
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« Reply #3 on: 14:57:17, 31-10-2007 »
as well as the famous parcel-sticker

RECORDS DO NOT BEND

with the handwritten note below:

Oh yes they do! - Bill The Postman
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« Reply #4 on: 15:42:34, 31-10-2007 »
It took three months to get a perfectly well-addressed letter through to the gaza strip this summer. Grrrrrrrrrrr.
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« Reply #5 on: 18:58:16, 31-10-2007 »
I still remember missing an interview because the post office took 12 days to move my application 12 miles. When I heard the news I thought "I could have biked over there with it in hand".
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