[lfjokes] Wish you were here - 112 years ago

[Adam Shand]

From: The Eristocracy <Eristocracy at merrymeet.com>
URL:  http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/europe/UK/02/21/britain.postcard.reut/

EDINBURGH, (Reuters) -- Postmen in the Scottish city of Aberdeen did their
very best to deliver a letter from Australia -- even if it was 112 years
late.

"The card was posted by a chap called Colin on the 4th of January in 1889
and it arrived in Aberdeen a few days ago. We have absolutely no idea
where it's been," said Aberdeen postmaster Pete Smith.

The card does not break any official world records for slow mail -- but
only because the category does not exist.

"Whoever has this postcard should get in touch with us because we might
start a new category," a spokesman for the Guinness Book of Records said.
"We've got a record for a parcel but that's only about two or three
years."

When confused 21st century postmen tried to deliver the postcard from
Brisbane to a Miss Wardrop at 32 Carden Place, Aberdeen, they discovered
it was a dental surgery.