• Jan and Terry Chudley from Whipton, Exeter, mailed four postcards to relatives when they were on holiday in Lanzarotte in the Canary Islands in December 2014. None of them arrived, but on Christmas Eve 2021, seven years after they were posted, Jan’s sister called her from Colchester to say that she had received a postcard from her, sent from Lanzarote. A spokesman for the Royal Mail trotted out the usual excuse: that they must have been.
