A resident of Penarth, a town in Wales’ Vale of Glamorgan, was recently perplexed when he received a letter that was intended for an address in Australia that was more than 10,500 miles away.
Keith Georgiou discovered a letter meant for Penrith, a city in Australia’s New South Wales, when he checked his mailbox over the weekend.
Because the Australian state was shortened to “NSW,” there was only one word on the envelope that matched Georgiou’s real address, which caused the confusion.
The envelope told him it had been sent from the Exeter region.
The 60-year-old remarked, “How it got to Penarth instead of Australia is a joke, isn’t it?”
“Clearly, it has passed through several sorting offices.”
