The owner of a mystery card which was delivered 40 years after it was posted has come forward.
As revealed in the Oxford Mail, a postcard with no stamp originally posted on May 11, 1960, was delivered to a house in Walton Street, Oxford, last month. It was addressed to a P Renshaw and was from Dorothy A Weedon at The Queen's College, Oxford.
Former student at The Queen's College and reporter at the Oxford Mail, Patrick Renshaw, 64, now lives in Sheffield.
He realised the card was his after being sent a copy of the newspaper by his solicitor, Nicholas Gardiner, who is based in Oxford.
He realised he had kept the card for 40 years and then accidentally posted it again. He said: "I have been recently tidying up my effects and must have posted it by mistake." Resident of the house in Walton Street, John Crabtree, said: "I am quite disappointed because I thought the Royal Mail had taken 40 years to deliver it.
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