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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
John Bett

Letter finally arrives 100 years after it was posted - leaving Royal Mail baffled

A letter that was lost in the post has finally been delivered - more than 100 years too late.

The envelope was posted through a London letterbox with a stamp of King George V's head on the top right corner.

It was addressed to Katie Marsh, wife of stamp dealer Oswald Marsh, and was sent by her friend Christabel Mennell in 1916, and it finally arrived in 2021.

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