In Britain, it takes more than 100 years for a letter to reach its destination. The current resident of the London address, Finlay Glen, told the BBC on Thursday he was “quite surprised and confused” when he received the letter.
It is not known why the letter, franked with a 1p stamp of King George V and postmarked February 1916 in Bath, West England, only arrived in London after such a long time. When asked, the Royal Mail said: “Incidents like this are very rare and we are not sure what happened in this case.”
Letter not opened for two years
It is also unclear why Glen kept the letter in a drawer for two years after receiving it in 2021 before making it public. It is a criminal offense to open letters that are not addressed to yourself, according to the 27-year-old.
But when he realized the letter (pictured below) was from 1916 and not 2016, he thought it was only fair. “If I’ve committed a crime, all I can do is apologize,” Glen said. If relatives of those involved contact them, he will gladly hand them over the letter.
In it, Christabel Mennell, the daughter of a wealthy tea merchant, writes to her friend Katie, the wife of the London stamp dealer Oswald Marsh, while on holiday in Bath. She is “miserable here with a very bad cold”.
Source: Krone
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