POST OFFICE SLEUTHS
One has heard of many remarkable cases of sleuthing which postal authorities have been called upon to undertake in order to deliver letters, but the palm must surely go to a letter, recently received by the San Francisco post office, which was addressed simply to "Latitude 37 degrees 45 minutes 53 seconds north, longitude 122 degrees 20 minutes 42 seconds west." The post office officials called on geodetic survey experts, who determined that the location was the junction of two streets. No one lived exactly on that spot, but on opening the letter it was found that the salutation was to "Grace and Wallace." "The postman on the route knew them, and the letter duly reached its destination. The post office does not encourage this sort of thing, of course, but it likes to show sometimes what it can do. i
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19360811.2.21
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 4
Word Count
144POST OFFICE SLEUTHS Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 4
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in