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Snail mail, German style
The German postal department has set a new record delivering mail. It has actually delivered a letter to the correct address 286 years late. Sent in 1718 from a Lutheran church official in the town of Eisenach to officials in the town of Ostheim, authorising them to select a new clergyman after the death of the former office holder, the letter was given by mistake to a different Ostheim near Frankfurt, and ended up in the town archives. A local historian from Ostheim-vor-der-Rhoen Karl Schneider, the town that should have received the letter, found it while discussing archival stuff with a colleague from Ostheim where the letter was mistakenly sent. It was finally delivered recently to the correct address.
Compiled by PAROMITA PAIN
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