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Parcel arrives - after 27 years

Royal Mail took nearly three decades to deliver a woman’s exam certificates just six miles.

Gill Smeathers received the package postmarked 4 November 1982, 27 years three months and two days overdue, reports the Daily Telegraph.

It contained four secretarial certificates issued to her daughter Tracy, who now lives in Canada, from a course she took at Kettering Technical College.

The cylindrical tube, still complete with 12.5p stamp, had travelled from Kettering to her home in Wellingborough, Northants.

“I’d love to know where it’s been all these years. I can only think it must have fallen behind a cupboard and got lost.”

Royal Mail believes that parcel was franked by the original sender and never posted. It has a more recent Milton Keynes postmark dated 15 February 2010.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .