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Letter addressed to 'woman in Cornwall shed' arrives at its correct home (2021)

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3 points by joebig 13 days ago · 1 comment

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AlbertoGP 12 days ago

> A town, street name or postcode were omitted, but a highlighted note – presumably written by a postie – chirpily added ‘Royal Mail, we never fail!’ to the front of the letter.

I think the note was written by the sender because the handwriting looks the same as in the vague "woman in Cornwall shed" address.

My guess is that it was intended to motivate Royal Mail to figure it out by quoting what might have been their slogan at some point. Now the highlight could have been added by a post office worker as a way of saying "indeed we never fail". The sender's style of higlighting things seems rather to be adding asterisks.

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