A British student’s postcard from the US has finally been delivered 32 years after it had been sent.
Andrew Leslie, who was 25 at the time, posted the cardboard to his dad, John, on 30 August 1989 while studying at The University of Michigan.
His mother Anne Leslie said she was left “mystified” when it finally arrived in Grimsby on Tuesday and was keen to find out what had happened.
Royal Mail said it’s going to are replace into the postal system recently.
Mrs Leslie said the cardboard arrived the day before her husband’s birthday. He lives during a care home for help with dementia but Mrs Leslie remains at an equivalent address.
“It was lunchtime and that i visited devour the mail and saw this postcard between a few of catalogues,” she said.
“I saw my son’s name and ‘love Andrew’ thereon and thought: ‘How strange’.”
“There’s little question about the date [stamp], so where’s it been hiding?”, she said.
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Andrew Leslie’s postcard, which has an aerial picture on the front, describes his arrival within the US.
He praises the “leafy, green” surroundings and writes about his seemingly “endless” flight from the united kingdom and meeting his “friendly and bright” coursemates.
The message ends with him worrying that he could also be unable to resist adopting the Americanisms employed by his new buddies.
“It was addressed to my dad because my mum was leaving him reception while she to go to |visited|came around|came visiting”> came to visit to Canada to visit her brother and meet with me.”
Royal Mail said it had been “difficult to speculate” on the explanations for the delay.
“Royal Mail regularly checks all its delivery offices and clears its processing machines daily. Once an item is within the postal system then it’ll be delivered to the address on the letter”.
He said: “It was stamped and addressed and written but it hadn’t been sent, but it had a date thereon and therefore the date was quite while , 10 to fifteen years before.
“So I discreetly slipped the postcard into my pocket and put it during a post box.”
A few days later he acknowledged that the cardboard had been delivered when he examine it within the local paper.