Rip Van Winkle Postcards.
The British Post Office, lor all its faults, knows how to make a gesture. It recently delivered two picture postcards to an address in Lowestoft. They bore | halfpenny stamps instead of penny ones, yet the Post Office forbore to demand surcharge. Perhaps the postal conscience was touched by the sight of King Edward’s head on the stamps. One of the cards was posted in
Stoke Newington in August, 9s?, and one in London, in Augus , 1909. Both were fullv, correctly and legibly addressed, and both were delivered in Lowestoft 0 1 the same day in 1929. No explanation was given as to where they have been during the interI vening 20 and 22 years, or posted in different post offices, they suddenly came together on the same day and arrived at their destinations by the same post. t
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Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 6
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142Rip Van Winkle Postcards. Northland Age, Volume 1, Issue 47, 6 November 1929, Page 6
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