A hotelier has been left baffled by the return of a marketing flyer, more than 2,000 days since it was originally sent out.
Murray Scott, managing director of the Angus Hotel in Blairgowrie, received an “addressee gone away” response to a marketing mailer recently but did not immediately recognise it as a recent campaign.
A closer look showed the item was posted on October 11 2007.
“It’s fairly normal for a small proportion of mailers to be returned within a few weeks of a campaign being issued,” he said.
“People move house all the time and, understandably, they don’t always tell us when they have.
“But to receive something that has been in Royal Mail’s hands for the last six years is fairly incredible. It really makes you wonder what else might not have reached its intended recipient.”
Perhaps most startling is the change in pricing over those six years. “According to the frank stamp on the mailer, second class postage in 2007 was coming in at a reasonable 22p that’s now shot up to 50p per item a rise of 127%.”
