A Welsh steelworker addressed a Christmas card to an old friend by drawing a map showing the approximate location of the town his friend had moved to — and the crafty Royal Mail actually delivered the card in nine days. The map sported the addressee's name and a dot in south-west north-east Cornwall with the legend "SOMEWHERE HERE."
(via Neatorama)
Update: Bob sez, "Envelopes: A Puzzling Journey Through the Royal Mail (by Harriet Russell) is an entire (and quite charming) book devoted to one woman's attempt to challenge the Royal Mail's tenacity in reliably mail delivery. In it are visuals of beautifully rendered puzzles that she challenged the Royal Mail to solve in order to reveal the address. Of the 130 envelopes she sent, 120 were delivered successfully. I'm a print designer so it was a snap for me to geek out on the beautiful hand rendering, not to mention how the puzzle designs get tougher to solve."
