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Letter with no name or address reaches intended recipient in Iceland

An Icelandic horse farming family was recently surprised to receive a piece of mail that bore neither their name nor address. Instead, the envelope was inscribed with the following instructions:

“Country: Iceland, City: Búðardalur, Name: A horse farm with an Icelandic/Danish couple and three kids and a lot of sheep. The Danish woman works in a supermarket in Búðardalur.”

A rough map of the area with a red dot marking the letter’s intended destination was also sketched out on the envelope, reports Iceland Review.

For the Icelandic postal system, this was apparently more than enough information to get the letter delivered to the correct recipient, Rebecca Cathrine Kaadu Ostenfeld and her family.

Iceland’s Skessuhornið reports that the letter was sent by foreign tourists who had previously visited the farm. In the letter, they explained that they wanted to prove that Iceland was the coolest country on earth, and that in Iceland, anything is possible. Apparently mailing a poorly addressed letter was the best way of making that point.

This isn’t the first example of mail improbably reaching its destination. BBC reports that in December of last year, a British man received a Christmas card from some friends in Germany. The envelope was addressed with a single word:

“England.”

[Photo by Steina Matt]