I thought my neighbor had dropped off some mail at my doorstep. Picking it up I notice an envelope from my uni.

“That’s strange!” I thought, considering that I had graduated a few years ago.

“Must be some alumni crap..”

Just before opening the letter I happened a glance at the postmark date.. 23rd of Feb.. nothing unusual about that.. 23rd of Feb, 2001.

I quickly sifted through the other four envelopes: phone bill, insurance bill, flatmate’s payslip, strip club flyer – sure enough, all of them were postmarked either Mar or Feb 2001. Two thousand and ONE! No fscking wonder my insurance expired without me realising!!

I checked them all again – all of them were correctly addressed. I reasoned that were from a lost mail bag, or had fallen behind a sorting desk.

I called Australia Post and asked about the matter. The girl that answered said she hadn’t be there all that long and she was shocked! She spoke to her supervisor about it and her supervisor was shocked!

“I’ve never heard of something like this happening before..”

Personally, it wasn’t an issue for me (it would’ve been had the house burned down and I was unpaid!) and I just wondered what had caused the ‘slight’ delay. We had a laugh about it but they couldn’t offer an explanation so I left my details and if anything is discovered, they’ll let me know.

I’ve heard of mail circulating for 30 years and stuff.. but it’s usually wrongly addressed, or for a deceased person, or a person who’s moved.. these were all correctly addressed and I’m living at the same place to this day!! Life goes on.. 🙂