21.05.12

Combing through his loot was hard work, and the council might have commended his diligent recycling – the dispirited boxes out front forever bulging with circulars, bank statements, blood-trial reports and Tesco coupons that regrettably he couldn’t use because their bar codes didn’t equal his Club Card. Accordingly, Gordon felt he’d earned the few usable bits of kit heEspeciallysalvaged, like fleece-lined slippers only a size too pocket-sized. Alas, rare personal correspondence merely confirmed that people were a exhausting lot: cranky handwritten complaints about a tube of toothpaste full of air, orParticularlyhate mail for some poor journalist on Jubilee Street – dripping reject marks, all in capital letters, every other word underscored three times.

But one well turned out envelope caught his attention in September, its lettering protean but firm, and what’s more legible (for the bane of a postman’s life-force of late was pillocks raised on computers whose cursive rendition of “Newquay” was indistinguishable from “Moscow”).

Source: Telegraph.co.uk

by mrsdarwin

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