Fuddland

Over Christmas a card was mis-delivered to my address; the house number and street matched mine, but the addressee and — more importantly — the town did not. Foolishly the sender had not bothered to put the postcode on. Not wanting to deprive the Mr & Mrs for whom this card was intended, I popped it back in the postbox on Wednesday. Guess what?

Yes, it arrived back here again today, with a second postmark printed over the first. So I’ve decided I’m just going to put it right back into the system again, and see how many times I can receive it back through my letterbox.

[I think I need to get out more.]

The following are entries which follows on from the above:

1. It's back [Fuddland]. Excerpt: That card is back, which makes three mis-deliveries. Just goes to show the importance of using a postcode when addressing envelopes. Back into the system it goes......

2. Game over [Fuddland]. Excerpt: Eleven days after its last appearance, the infamous card was delivered again this morning--its fourth visit. Sadly I can't send it out again, because they're so convinced it's for this address that somebody--probably the postman, but possibly a sorting...

#1

Daisy | 2004 / 01 / 17 – 20:42

There’s part one of the Fuddathon - shall we all bet on how many times it will come back to you?

#2

David | 2004 / 01 / 18 – 03:37

Re #1: Place yer bets! :)

#3

Daisy | 2004 / 01 / 18 – 19:44

#1: 4

#4

David | 2004 / 01 / 19 – 10:09

Okay, the card was put back into the system this morning — let’s see if it gets delivered to my address for a third time.

#5

Gordon | 2004 / 01 / 19 – 12:40

3 I say, I say 3 I tell ya!

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