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    Yesterday, a letter arrived at my parents house.
    Nothing unusual, except this was a letter I posted in August 1994 from France, to my sister.

    So, where the hell has it been for the best part of 30 years?
    Unfortunately, it is about 60 years too early to be a Guinness record, but it is pretty shocking.

    I wish I knew where it had been. The french postmarks are both from '94, and the Royal mail from Feb '24.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CageyH View Post
    Yesterday, a letter arrived at my parents house.
    Nothing unusual, except this was a letter I posted in August 1994 from France, to my sister.

    So, where the hell has it been for the best part of 30 years?
    Unfortunately, it is about 60 years too early to be a Guinness record, but it is pretty shocking.

    I wish I knew where it had been. The french postmarks are both from '94, and the Royal mail from Feb '24.

    Nothing like efficiency.
    must have been in some postal dumping factory space i guess and got forgotten about.
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    From the title of the thread, you make the assumption the delay was the fault of the Royal Mail.
    Just because it has a French postmark doesn’t necessarily mean it left France. Was it sent airmail?
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    It has two French post marks, so was processed correctly in France, and only one Royal Mail, even so, where has it been for thirty years?

    Sorry, three french postmarks, all within a couple off days of each other, and then the next one is in the UK almost 30 years later, the day before delivery?
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    Did the two French post office marks show the same date?
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    Answered by my edit
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    Catchy thread title But I agree with @Barry, it could be a problem with the French postal system - why would they post mark it three times?
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    Why? Where it was received, the local sorting office, and then the international distribution centre.
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    All French post marks from 1994.

    So, let's blame the French?
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    It is probably as Grant has said: the letter was dropped somewhere.

    I worked for the Royal Mail as a student during the Christmas holidays, both sorting and collecting the mail bags from the railway station.
    Regarding the latter, the bags were sealed and the seal was only opened and the bag emptied at the sorting office. Then the bags were turned inside out to make sure there were no letters left behind.

    Likewise, it is possible that some letters may fall to the floor whilst sorting, but the premises are cleaned by closely observered cleaners, so should be recovered.

    The only other explanation is that your letter fell out behind the pigeonhole for the onward postal district, and was not discovered until the entire rack was moved.

    The Royal Mail here is still pretty good and efficient; it's just the high costs I resent.
    Barry

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