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SNAIL MAIL COMES HOME AFTER NINE YEARS
21-02-2008
Hot off the press news on the opening of a business centre at Fetcham Park House in Leatherhead went cold when it was lost in the post – for nearly nine years.
In what could be a snail mail record, a copy of a news release issued on June 7, 1999 by Parallel Business Centres, was returned to sender by Royal Mail in February 2008. To whom it was originally addressed and its whereabouts in the intervening years are unknown but the return envelope noted: “This article has been found loose in the post”.
A spokesman at Royal Mail’s press office said it was unlikely to have been languishing in a sorting office. “It may have been delivered to the wrong address or caught up in another letter,” he speculated. “Most probably someone recently found it and put it back in the post.”
The release was accompanied by a photo of the late Wilky Wilkinson, then chairman of The Wilky Group which had bought the historic listed mansion for over £2 million. It described the launch of the business centre after a £600,000 refurbishment to offer growing companies high quality office space on flexible terms.
The mansion joined Parallel House, a listed Georgian property in Guildford restored by Wilky and opened as a business centre 10 years earlier. A third centre, at Cams Hall, Fareham, has also since been opened.
Sandra Leslie, managing director of Parallel Business Centres, said: “It was a strange feeling to receive post from the previous century. Fortunately the other copies must have been delivered because the opening of the new business centre was widely reported. Of course our news releases are now all sent out by email.”
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