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A chef has been amazed after Royal Mail delivered a letter with clues to his identity, including the SUV he drove, scribbled on the envelope instead of an address.
Mark Dale, 53, was sent a new recipe by Facebook friend Andy Pem who wrote he was “not sure” where he lived.
The letter was addressed to: “Chef Mark Dale, somewhere in the Yorkshire Dales. Likes 4×4 Pajeros, curly haired lad. Some Top hotel chef, might be where the lock in due to snow was. Not sure.”.
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Mark, who lives in Settle, North Yorkshire, was impressed with Royal Mail sleuthing when he received a letter a few years ago when he was working in Caversham.
It was addressed to: “The house in Upper Caversham with a broken down front wall and loads of lorries and trucks parked on the drive.”
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When Mr Pem then contacted Mark on social media to say he had sent him a letter to him with a recipe in and an 88p stamp, but without a proper address.
Mark expected the recipe to take weeks to arrive.
Three days later, Mark was stunned to be contacted on Facebook by a woman who was a manager at the Royal Mail who recognised his name on the envelope and asked for his address.
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Mark refused to give it to her to put her bosses detective work to the test. On Thursday this week, it arrived special delivery – four days after posting.
“So well done Royal Mail, and thank you, Nicola Bielby, the lady who commented from Royal Mail, and put a compliments slip in,” he said.
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Mr Pem said: “I just cannot believe it found him. Well done, Royal Mail. You should use it in your advert.”
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