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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 2

Posting an Umbrella. Hurrying to the General Post Office at Nottingham to post a letter a dear old, absent-minded lady got parcels in her hands a trifle mixed—and posted her umbrella. Site walked home carrying the letter, and concluded that she had dropped her umbrella en route. 'l’lie umbrella had instead become wedged in the letter chute. For the next few days hundreds of letters fell into the half-opened umbrella and were diverted on to the floor. There they remained unnoticed until officials, after receiving dozens of notices from irate business men, complaining of orders that had gone astray, made an investigation. “We suspected another, stolen mail bag at first,” an official said. “Now we are senrching for the old lady, who perhaps has parked her letter in the ballstnnd 1”