should I return this postcard?

[Elbonio]

ok this is what happened.


I'm in a backstreet, dingy dark shop in Manchester. I'm flicking through boxes of old photographs, postcards and the like

i bought approximately 50


so i was reading some of the postcards, and they're rather amusing, when i come accross one sent in 1981.

anyway the address it sends it to is:

"Mr + Mrs J. Cooke
'Clifton Rise'
Pinchington Lane
Newbury"


as you can se:

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=447600&y=165250&z=3&sv=447500,165500&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=692


it's not very far from the racecourse


so i was thinking of returning it to Mr and Mrs Cooke (if they still live there)


For those who are interested the postcard says:


"hallo you two, It's now our turn for a winter holiday. Glad you liked Salzbury. Here we are having brilliant weather. Hope to go back with a nice tan. Cookie turns out to be a very good skier and Faith + Dadier have a hard time keeping up with her. Love to Peter, Go+ Co"


but what should i do with it?

[Arachnamus]

Hand hovered over the 3am button..

I say you have a chat if they're still there. Perhaps about a spelling course (they live in Newbury and can't spell Salisbury?).

[Elbonio]

i know! i thought that!


the 3am one would make it all the more surreal but increases the chance of them not answering

[Arachnamus]

Well, they'd answer, i just doubt they'd invite you in for tea and biscuits.

[Elbonio]

guigsy has suggested taking cocktail sausages on sticks


i think that might soften the blow a bit

"hi here's a postcard you were supposed to get over 20 years ago... have a chipolata..."

[Elbonio]

actually we should get a barbershop troop feel going and sing them the postcard


whether they're mr+mrs cooke or not

[Arachnamus]

You don't want to scare them. Don't take them a bouncey castle.

[Elbonio]

bouncy castles are for radiohead only


id feel it was a waste of a bouncy castle if we didnt give it to thom...

[Cheez]

Hand deliver it and chat to them. Take a camera! :D

[Elbonio]

thats if they still live threre 20 odd years later

[her0n]

I think they meant Salzburg instead of Salzbury, would make the most sense.

3am would just be like 'wtf' but it would be cool if it was them when they answered the door during the day though!

[Elbonio]

oh yeah :rolleyes:

[Mamacita]

"yes - just post it through the door and walk off"

It's got that level of "wtf anonimity". As well as being suprised they'll always wonder.. who did this?

Greatest pleasure of all is doing something for someone without them knowing and being able to sit back and smile thinking I did that :)

[Elbonio]

Yeah i have always liked doing that

brings an air of mystery to the whole affair


but so far its only got one vote :rolleyes:

[JeRkY]

ahh yes do that, with any luck whoever lives there (the origional recipients or not) will think its arrived 20 years late due to postage hax, then get some sily local media involved, then you can point out the mastermind behind it all. thus getting alloted air time to advance your skills to a wider audience.

possibly add a post-it note saying sorry its late


i mean odds are even if it is the origional recipients that live there still, they wont recall recieving it the 1st time any way

[Elbonio]

bah

now im torn between just posting it through and seeing if it makes it onto annanova.com

or

having a chat with them


the second one risks them not being there and that would be boring

[Atari]

FYI that address no longer exists (According to RoyalMail) it's seems like its an industrial estate now.

[Elbonio]

an intruiging development

[WhiteKnight]

I was just about to post that... the last time i went there there was a tescos and Mc donalds there.

[Elbonio]

Yeah i thought that looked like where it was


but i thought there were maybe some hosues i was missing :rolleyes:


we could always give it to McDonalds

[Elbonio]

there's an even more amazing part to this story actually


this is probably the biggest coincidence that's ever happened. anywhere.


ok so im thumbing through these boxes of old photographs and i come accross a particular picture that took me aback quite a bit.. i did a literal double take.

It was a picture of my aunt and uncles back garden who live in chester, some years ebfore they bought the house.


How on earth this picture had found its way into this little dingy shop miles away in Manchester, awaiting to be found by the nephew of the hosues future owners...


the chance of that are astronomical

[Nivek]

perhaps its a ghost house, it only is visibal to those that have something to post!!!