Mail Puzzles by Harriet Russell

For her degree from the Glasgow School of Art, Harriet Russell decided to do a little postal experiment to find out exactly how far would the men and women at Royal Mail were willing to go to deliver mail:

To put them to the test she concealed the addresses of 130 letters to herself in a series of increasingly complex puzzles and ciphers. Among the disguises she employed were dot-to-dot drawings, anagrams and cartoons. The answer, it seems, was very far indeed. Amazingly, only 10 failed to complete their journey back to her.

The story is fascinating (complete with reference to how the private secretary to Queen Victoria also did this sort of thing): Link - via Laughing Squid


I was happily reading this piecvwe when the map suddenly oriented itself in my head.

I grew uip around there. Hell my Mum still luives one street ove from Barrington Road.

This is weird.
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Ah on closer inspection me mum's place is there, Wood lands they wrote rather than Woodlands.

And yes the corner shop there does sell an amazingly large number of Jazz mags, the veg shop sells alligator and Khat.
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My Aunt and Uncle live in a small, but not tiny, town in the American northeast. My uncle's mother couldn't remember their address and, last year, sent them a holiday package labeled simply: Jud & Fredricka, Alexis, VT

They received it the day after Xmas but it got there.

Andy they say the post isn't competent.
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