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Date Posted: 13:10:45 12/02/01 Sun
Author: Nancy
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Subject: Wish You Were Here!! 112 Years Ago!

Wish You Were Here - 112 Years Ago

Reuters

EDINBURGH, Scotland (Feb. 23) - 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.
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