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> We did reach out to the post office for comment and a spokesperson told me, “In most cases these incidents do not involve mail that had been lost in our netwo
by julianlam 6y ago
> We did reach out to the post office for comment and a spokesperson told me, “In most cases these incidents do not involve mail that had been lost in our network and later found. What we typically find is that old letters and postcards – sometimes purchased at flea markets, antique shops and even online – are re-entered into our system. The end result is what we do best – as long as there is a deliverable address and postage, the card or letter gets delivered.”
A bit of a sensationalized headline. Just an old postcard, the postmark is recent.
- tantalor 6y ago> sensationalized headline No, the postmark is 1920 according to the article. See https://i.imgur.com/r8HqDc2.png https://i.imgur.com/r8HqDc2.png
- toby- 6y agoCan it not have multiple postmarks? The stamp at the top (which says 1920) and the modern barcode underneath?
- kube-system 6y agoThe barcode is not a postmark, it's a machine readable version of the address
- tialaramex 6y agoNerdy nitpick: It might not be quite an "address". In the UK at least the machine readable information (either added during sorting or printed deliberately for a discount rate by bulk senders) indicates a delivery point a place to which this post will be in fact delivered, distinct from an address. For example my address says Flat 7 of 60 My Street, and a friend lives at Flat 10 of 74 My Street. But my delivery point is a letter box in the front door of my home, whereas his delivery point is just a locked box at street level. Timed locks allow the postman to enter my building despite not having a key, so as to deliver post to my front door, whereas his building doesn't do this. The company (almost everything in the UK is privatised because Tory ideology says this is a good idea even if it clearly isn't) delivering post owns very detailed maps of where all these delivery points are, because of course it needs its employees to visit all those points to deliver post, whereas it needn't care where in some sense an "address" is other than where the post is to be delivered.
- sib 6y agoAddress (n): "a place where a person or organization may be communicated with"
- tialaramex 6y agoMmm. Where did you find that definition? My (Collins) paper dictionary offers: "The conventional form by which the location of a building is described" and nothing close to what you've suggested. Wiktionary offers: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/address https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/address "A description of the location of a property, usually with at least [...]"
- sib 6y agoMerriam-Webster: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/address https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/address
- tjohns 6y agoI see two postmarks. One stamped from 1920, and a second one sprayed on from 2020 (just to the left of the first one). The second postmark suggests that this was possibly redeposited into the mail somewhere.
- lumberingjack 6y agoPost office says postmark is from 1920 the age and legitimacy of the origin of the card is correct. It was lost in 1920 in the mail or it was received kept for so long that it ended up being antique postcard that went through storefront market resold to somebody in modern times And they placed it in the mailbox.