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Better late than never?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by Ottomaton, Feb 17, 2007.

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  1. Ottomaton

    Ottomaton Member
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    I almost wouldn't believe that something like this could happen in reality. It boggles the mind. Remind me to never mail anything important through the Royal Mail.

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    Postcard delivered 90 years too late


    By Nick Britten
    Last Updated: 2:11am GMT 17/02/2007



    When Private Walter Butler posted a card to his sweetheart from the trenches in the First World War, neither thought too much about it when it failed to arrive.

    Pte Butler, who was fighting on the Western Front with the Dorset Regiment, went on to marry his girlfriend, Amy Hicks, and the pair lived long and happy lives in Chippenham, Wilts.

    Last week the card mysteriously reappeared when Martin Kay, a postman, found it had been placed in his delivery sack. With Pte Butler and his wife now dead, he tracked down their only daughter, Joyce Hulbert, 86, and delivered it, 90 years too late. Mrs Hulbert said: "I would love to know where it has been all this time."


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  2. pradaxpimp

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    that kind of stuff is pretty neat.

    i hear they are going to make this into a movie. Starring Kevin Costner.
     
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    as the dead guy
     

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