/ 23 August 2024

Some seriously slow snail mail

British post

It might already be known as ‘snail mail’ but after a postcard was delivered to its UK destination 121 years late, the British postal service might need a rebrand to ‘glacial mail’. The Christmas-themed message arrived at what’s now a bank in the Welsh city of Swansea last week after it was originally sent back in 1903. Bank staff are trying to locate the previous owner of the building to reunite her – or let’s be honest, her descendents – with the card. Royal Mail has defended the delayed delivery, claiming it’s more likely the postcard was “put back into” their system, rather than “being lost in the post”, but either way says it’s “under obligation to deliver it to the correct address.” They’re just lucky it wasn’t addressed to Miranda Priestly

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