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An Post has a reputation for getting letters to their destination no matter what is written on the envelope, whether it’s just a name and a county or just a few landmarks.
The Irish postal service is a dab hand at working out directions, no matter how cryptic or sparing they are — Charlie Bird recently revealed that post addressed to ‘Charlie Bird Wicklow’ always finds him, for instance.
It appears the people working for the Royal Mail in Northern Ireland are just as talented when it comes to strangely addressed letters, as proven by this letter to a man Antrim that features his ‘life story’ on the envelope.
Hearty applause to @RoyalMail Cushendall and Ballymena for being able to deliver this letter to me today got a much needed laugh ! … they had first name, the village where I grew up and half the postcode .. the rest is more like my life story ! #thisisyourlife pic.twitter.com/IYhZiegz58
— Feargal Lynn (@weefeargal) January 6, 2022
Feargal Lynn from Cushendall posted a snap of the letter, which has a whole paragraph trying to explain who he is and where he lives in lieu of his address.
It includes such details as the fact that his mother and father used to own a shop, the town he moved to after getting married, and that he used to run discos in the parish hall more than 30 years ago.
‘Feargal, Lives across the road from the Spar his Ma and Da used to own it, his mother was Mary and Da Joseph, moved to Waterfoot after he got married, plays guitar and used to run discos in the parochial hall and the hotel in the 80s,’ the envelope reads.
‘Friends with the fella runs the butchers in Waterfoot too, Cushendall, BT44, N Ireland.’
Feargal offered the staff at Royal Mail in Cushendall and Ballymena a ‘hearty applause’ for ‘being able to deliver this letter to me today’, saying it had given him ‘a much needed laugh’.
‘They had first name, the village where I grew up and half the postcode .. the rest is more like my life story! #thisisyourlife’ he added.
