“He gave me my mail and said ‘Are you expecting anything from Germany?’ and I said ‘I might be – we’ve got friends over there’,” said Mr Biggs.
“He said ‘Have a look at this letter’ – so I had a look and turned it over and our friends’ address was on the back of it and on the front it just said England.”
Mr Biggs said the card had been sent from a sorting office in Germany close to Gloucester’s twin town of Trier and had not been opened.
“I said ‘How on earth did you know it was for me?’ and he said ‘I didn’t, I’ve been wandering around with this’, said Mr Biggs.
“My wife and I are absolutely shocked but this puts posties at five or six stars and top of the tree for me this Christmas.”
The card, it is believed, may have originally been addressed correctly and so was sent to the right area of England – but with an address label that fell off at some point.
A Royal Mail spokesman said: “Royal Mail’s team of ‘address detectives’ are renowned for their ability to ensure poorly addressed items of mail reach their intended recipients however, even by their standards, this is pretty impressive.”
the royal mail detectives are a weird bunch, and like if it was addressed right it would get right but i love the idea they went “well it’s from Trier so send it to the twinned town first”
Terry Pratchett would have loved this
I received a postcard at my home address, from a university friend one time, that was addressed to “Rachel [surname], Dear Postie I’m sorry I don’t know the whole address, she lives at [half incorrect approximation of my road name but with no house number] in [town] and she has blue hair”
if shes your girl then why have i slowly been replacing her parts until there’s nothing left of her original body? is she then still your girl?
They ship of theseus’d my girl
Can’t have shit in Detroit
this actually perfectly demonstrates the transitive property of memes: you can replace a meme piece by piece until it only structurally resembles the original, and it is, in fact, the same meme.
call that the meme of theseus thesis
tumblrites can have a little intertextuality as a treat
my naym is ship and when i’m broke the broken part from me they toke
replace the part had been the plan but in the morn hand door car man
*me shoving transitive properties into my purse* sorry, I have to go
We owe the reddit refugees an apology for making them see posts like this
no we don’t this shit is enrichment in their new enclosure
*slaps roof of Tumblr* This baby can fit so many rare vintages, you just have to go deep enough, there are some great memes in the cellar, come see
I do appreciate the culture of Tumblr as a historian because on Twitter I would be expected to talk straight academia, on Instagram I would be expected to post perfectly staged photos of my reenactment costumes, on TikTok I would be expected to make videos propagating badly revised history, but here I can just whip open my laptop and tell the world that I think Thomas Jefferson was a little bitch with no context whatsoever
