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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Around a hundred A6 sized cards have been sent to Margaret Huber (if that's even her real name?) since 2004 from faraway places like Japan, Finland, Spain, Russia and England.

The mail involved items like hair, fish, a sachet of white powder, a piece off a broken record etc. and the aim of the game was to test the postal system.

FYI: Only three cards never reached their destination.

Below is what the mail man had in his hot little hand at one time, or another... But there are more.


"Hair and glue" (DNA FAIL - pretty sure I don't ever want that sent to me)


"Take care labels"


"Fish and glue go well together" (So experimental.)


"Red record"


"Nearly visible 1000 yen note - That no one stole"


"Copper pipe with scratched address" (Question: Is it true that Connex trains run late sometimes because of 'copper thieves'?!)


"A bin find from Brighton"


"A sheet of seaweed" (Gross if that got wet.)


"Holy Wood from Finland" (Get it? Holy wood? Fun with pun.)



This project made it into the book POSTCARD.

Reader comments (7)

Tobler1 Royalty Tobler1 ON 18 Nov 2008 04:44:56PM They're all good, Unlike religion.

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lotart08 New citizen lotart08 ON 18 Nov 2008 04:58:05PM "take care labels" that ones the best, i was wandering why my clothes didn't have any labels left on them... now my whites are pink and my panties are G's.

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SimoneMitchell Royalty SimoneMitchell ON 18 Nov 2008 05:15:15PM Oh, I like this alot. Except for the Hair Mail. I would return that bad boy to sender.

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Pomegranate Royalty Pomegranate ON 19 Nov 2008 09:19:29AM The Holy Wood one is cool, the hair one is foul! Ewww yucky

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harriet Citizen harriet ON 19 Nov 2008 10:05:40AM I wonder what the ones were that never made it to her...

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arielamazing Royalty arielamazing ON 19 Nov 2008 10:36:06AM I don't think the "sachet of white powder" every made it across the border.

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CandyClouds Royalty CandyClouds ON 26 Nov 2008 08:42:37AM I used to do this to a friend of mine. I once sent her an old carrot in the mail. Her nickname was 'smelly carrot'.

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