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> 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...

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Is this not basically once-off nerd-sniping for post workers... "ooh: here's a challenge."?

I'm sure you only hear about the success stories.

In my case it was an embarrassing success story... my great uncles name was globally, or at least unique in Germany, i misspelled it, got the postcode wrong, forgot street and house number (sent from abroad)... and it arrived a month or so later. Boy got I laughed at. I'd rather wished it had disappeared. Thats was back in the 90's.

Some other embarassing success story. My gf bought a postcard in Czech Republic, filled it with my address in Warsaw, but forgot to buy poststamps.

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 :)

If it was already in Warsaw, it's possible some bored civilians found the postcard and decided to go to your address and put it in the mailbox...

Haha, I can imagine some post-master and his workers' eyes glinting with excitement once they find a letter of this sort. "Ooooh, unmarked letter... It's showtime!"

There's the story from last year of a letter being delivered that only had a description of the person and where the person used to live:

https://twitter.com/weefeargal/status/1479069076144234497

and also this letter / package addressed with broken encoding, decoded by the postal service.

We received a letter from a friend in France, in the 2000s, addressed to Wellington but no country specified. Also present were an nz postmark and "try great Britain".

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