A woman who spent 48 years wondering why an application for her dream job was never answered has finally found out why, BBC has reported.
Tizi Hodson, 70, from Gedney Hill in Lincolnshire, could not believe her eyes when she opened the post to discover her original letter applying for a job as a motorcycle stunt rider, sent in January 1976, had been stuck behind a post office drawer all these years.
Despite it getting lost in the post, the setback did not hamper her daredevil career as she found a job that took her all over the world.
Describing the letter being returned as “amazing”, Ms Hodson told BBC, “I always wondered why I never heard back about the job. Now I know why.”
At the top of the letter is a handwritten note that reads: “Late delivery by Staines Post Office. Found behind a draw [sic]. Only about 50 years late.”
Ms Hodson doesn’t know who returned the letter, or how it even found its way to her.
“How they found me when I’ve moved house 50-odd times, and even moved countries four or five times, is a mystery,” she said.
“It means so much to me to get it back all this time later.
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