Switched-on posties ensure letters with no address are delivered to right recipients

SO you reckon hairdressers know everyone’s business? Maybe, but here’s proof no-one knows who’s who and what’s what better than a country postie.

Some posties go above and beyond to deliver the mail even without an address.

YOU reckon hairdressers know everyone’s business?

Maybe, but no-one knows who’s who and what’s what better than a country postie.

Our story about the Colac postie who amazingly delivered a card with no address, and scrawled only with a name and “don’t know the street but she has just turned 90 and everybody should know her”, has inspired more tales of posties’ triumphs.

Greeting card: This birthday message was delivered to Margaret in time for her 90th birthday, thanks to a Colac postie.

Ken Prato made an acquaintance while on a trip to the UK.

Not long after he received a letter addressed simply to “Ken Prato, Ballarat”.

“Our local postman was able to deliver it to our letterbox at our home in the suburb of Wendouree,” Ken says. “I thought, ‘Good on you, Australia Post’.”

And Margot from Canberra was newly married in the ‘50s when she was surprised to receive a card addressed to her maiden name and pre-marriage address on the other side of a large country town.

“It meant the postman knew that I had been married, and to whom I was married, but he also knew where I was now living,” she says.

“That’s one thing about a country town — everyone knows everybody’s business!”

Has your postie gone above and beyond? Let us know.

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