A CURIOUS POSTAL COINCIDENCE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 187, 30 June 1916, Page 2 (Supplement)

A CURIOUS POSTAL COINCIDENCE.

A father wrote to his son. stationed in the south of England, asking him to return a pair of spectacles taken away by mistake. In due course he received them; and by the same post, from a town near his son's military station, another parcel. It w.as addressed also in his sons handwriting, and contained another pair of spectacles, and also a letter from a country optician to a London firm requesting the early return of the spectacles after r?p.ilr. as the owner required them urgently. The explanation was that the label of parrel I—which1 —which was addressed on the wrapper as v.ell as on the label —had come off in transit, and had been tied on to parcel namber -. It hud lost its label and had r.ot been addressed on the wrapper. The moral is obvious; but what are the chances against two parcels. one of them delivered by :ie ident at the wrong address, containing each a pair of spectacles and arriving by the same post?