Geography is still important

This Christmas card still made it in nine days. If you want to communicate with the world there will always be a way ;-)

Update: In Comments: Reader Alan Coady: "In days gone by it was apparently possible to write to Ludwig van at the address:
Beethoven,
Vienna
There was less junk mail around in those days though - but more in the way of Napoleonic wars."

Update 2: In Comments: Reader Katie Farrell: Did you hear about the get well soon card that was sent to the "Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Little France" - it got there but went via Lille, France :-)

 

Comments

[Eva Forbes]

Apparently the Post Office had/has? an office devoted to this, delivering seemingly undeliverable mail eg a letter that had only an ordnance survey reference. As a child I received a letter from a German penpal addressed only to the street and England. That programme ? many years ago with Esther Ranzen used to get all sorts of weird things like a paper cup with just a question mark on it!

The question is this - how many pence do we pay on our stamps to subsidise the deliberate games some people play?

[Alan Coady]

In days gone by it was apparently possible to write to Ludwig van at the address:

Beethoven
Vienna

There was less junk mail around in those days though - but more in the way of Napoleonic wars.

[Digitalkatie]

We got a card this Christmas with the wrong house number, the wrong street and no postcode. It was from a friend who has moved and he didn't include his address in the card. I'm tempted to do the same and send a card to "Ronnie, somewhere in Edinburgh"

Did you hear about the get well soon card that was sent to the "Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, Little France" - it got there but went via Lille, France :-)