Sunday, March 23, 2008

Message in a Bottle

The Associated Press: 1986 Message in Bottle Drifts 1,735 Mi.: "SEATTLE (AP) — Merle Brandell and his black lab Slapsey were beachcombing along the Bering Sea when he spied a plastic bottle among the Japanese glass floats he often finds along the shore of his tiny Alaskan fishing village.

He walked over and saw an envelope tucked inside. After slicing the bottle open, Brandell found a message from an elementary school student in a suburb of Seattle. The fact that the letter traveled 1,735 miles without any help from the U.S. postal service is unusual, but that's only the beginning of the mystery."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

>The fact that the letter traveled 1,735 miles without any help from the U.S. postal service is unusual…

Bill, maybe it's because the Postal Service was NOT involved that it managed to arrive safely.

Unknown said...

Now there's a thought.