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A letter sent in Britain in 1916 arrived at its destination fashionably 107 years late, and no one knows how it happened.
The resident in South London who received the letter, Finley Glenn, told CNN that he opened the box and noticed an old envelope. This can’t be 2016.”
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Glenn added that the letter reached him already about two years ago, but he ignored it, and only recently took it to the local historical society, so they could investigate it. On the envelope is a 1 penny stamp bearing the portrait of King George V. The letter was sent in the middle of World War I – more than a decade before Queen Elizabeth II was born.
“Once we realized he was very old, we felt it was OK to open the letter,” said Glenn, 27. Under the Postal Services Act of 2000, it is a crime to open mail that is not addressed to you. But Glenn said he could only apologize if he committed a crime.
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The letter was addressed to “My dear Katie”, who according to Oxford was the wife of local stamp dealer Oswald Marsh. It was written by Christabel Mennell, daughter of the tea merchant Henry Toke Mennell, while her family was on holiday in Bath, in the West of England. In the letter Mennel writes: “I was the most miserable here with a very heavy cold.”
However, it remains a mystery how the letter got to Glenn’s apartment. “Incidents like this happen from time to time, and we are not sure what happened in this case,” a Royal Mail spokesman said.
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