BOTTLE AS POSTMAN
For sure delivery of mail to Iceland, put your letters in a bottle and throw them into the Atlantic. Delivery is almost certain, but speed is uncertain.
For instance, a bottle thrown into the sea off Newfoundland by the steamship Patagonier, October 12, 1928, was picked up on the beach in Southern Iceland recently, after something like a year’s voyage. But a bottle thrown overboard in the Gulf of Mexico took only a month to make the much longer journey.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 28
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83BOTTLE AS POSTMAN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 880, 25 January 1930, Page 28
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