Olga was a famous doorkeeper at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Students used to send her postcards from their journeys.
It became so popular that it was enough to write "Olga, Sweden" for her to get the letters [0] (source in swedish).
Students used to send her postcards from their journeys.
It became so popular that it was enough to write "Olga, Sweden" for her to get the letters [0] (source in swedish).
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Funny story: Back in the 1950s, my father went on a rugby tour to the Soviet Union. One of his team mates wrote a postcard back to his mum with an address of:
Mrs Williams,
Clynderwen
"Clynderwen" being the little village he came from. My dad said, "You can't just put that". He, none too bright, said "Why not? There's only one Clynderwen", and posted it.
6 months later, and about 5 1/2 after the end of the tour, it arrived. All over it were notes saying things like "Unknown in Hong Kong. Try Australia".
Man, that's some serious organizational ethic! If only both companies and people were as exact today...
I'm sure you only hear about the success stories.
She didn't send the postcards and carried them to Warsaw. In Warsaw they fell out of her pocket on a street, or something like that.
Still, they arrived in our post box. We still don't have an idea how and why :)
Ill never forget my great aunt amy (my grandmothers sister, they were both canadian by birth in 1923-time)
"Grandma, I didnt know Amy was british!?"
"Neither did we dear, neither did we"
(My great aunt would talk with a British accent)
Family fact - my uncle (Amy's son) went to school with Bill and Paul in Seattle and we have a pic of them together...
No 8.8.8.8 here, try over there ...
He told me that he could get successfully receive mail addressed to
Cletus
Vatican
I'm told that letters were addressed simply, "Lorien, [town name]"
Not as impressive as Olga, of course, but close!
For US post office boxes you can just write the full 9-digit zip code.
Actually, it looks like Chalmers is the same way - the address in the footer of their website is just "Chalmers University of Technology, 412 96 Gothenburg" (with the '41' prefix already implying Gothenburg).
[1] https://www.postnord.se/vara-verktyg/sok-postnummer-och-adre...
Oh, and: mokas farakas!
Although that's also an address with it's own postcode, so "SW1A 2AA" would also get there.
I wonder if random mail sent to top level politicians actually gets to them. The intention is clear, yes, but there's probably layers of security that will prevent it from getting to its intended address...
Excellent book has a collection of such letters.
“Reagan: A Life In Letters“
Members of Parliament have a duty to listen and respond to their constituents, which in Sunak's case is the people of Richmond, North Yorkshire. I don't live there, but I have lived in a senior government minister's constituency in the past. I wrote one letter, and I did get a reply — I doubt my letter was directly read by the minister, but it was probably tallied up by an assistant "15 letters supporting this so far, 8 against".
I doubt my letter was directly read by the minister,
We seem to be in agreement.
R B Bennett, Canadian PM from 1930 - 1935, was an eager correspondent with random people across the country. He read and wrote tens of thousands of letters throughout his career. During the Depression he would include cash from his personal wealth in the envelopes if people described hardships. I wonder if that would be seen as vote-buying today but it was probably genuine charity.
I don't believe that basic tendency has really changed. Some politicians do genuinely want to be close to the people and random conversations and letters with ordinary people are one way to do that. And seeming approachable is useful politically, if nothing else. Some want nothing to do with the filthy masses, of course.
""Dear God" letters are sent to Mail Recovery offices or local churches."