A chara, – Frank McNally's Irishman's Diary ("An Irishman's Diary on the magic of An Post at Christmastime", December 22nd) on miraculous deliveries by An Post put me in mind of a letter that didn't quite reach its intended destination.
Several years ago while teaching my primary school fourth class how to write a letter, we did a follow-up activity where the children would write to a famous person whom they admired. One boy wrote to Arnold Schwarzenegger and asked me if I knew his address.
I told him to put Hollywood on the envelope and it would find him.
Two weeks later, he brought the letter back to class.
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It had been returned from the Co Wicklow village of the same name and marked, “No-one by that name living here”. – Is mise,
JOHN KELLY
Bennekerry,
Co Carlow.