The person who checked the mail (7 photos) Bashny.Net

Looking at the picture may seem as if the man depicted on it, use the mailbox as an urn. In fact, it is not so: on bulbs that man down into the slot, stuck all the brand - so, by law, the vegetables are sending and must be delivered to the addressee. The man in the photo - Reginald Bray - "headache" English mail.



It all began in 1898 when Reginald caught the eye directory Royal Mail, which stated its readiness to deliver a parcel of any size, from bees to elephants. Bray took the slogan literally, and over the next forty years, the English had a post on strength. He began with a greeting card. In the column "To", he wrote: "In every house in London»



Or pasted a photo of a rock with a note: "The house is near this rock



Specifies the address or rebus



He sent knitted envelopes and cards with two addresses



Naturally, not all the letters of the recipient, but the mail was trying.



After greeting cards, joker switched to the parcel. In mailbox went: bowler, turnips (with a cut on her address), skull rabbit tube penny, biking and much more. Bray properly pasted stamp on every thing. Once he mailed the dog.



But what was surprising postmen when Reginald came to the post office with the payment receipt and said that he is sending. Postman had no choice, how to deliver "package" to the specified address on it.

In addition to the postal service Reginald Bray harassed and ordinary citizens. He sent letters to celebrities and ordinary people, requiring them to sign autographs. By the end of life collection Bray consisted of 15,000 strokes. For a long time collector sought an autograph from Hitler, bombarding him with letters. In the end, from the German Chancellery came the answer: "The Führer is very busy working refrain from further emails to this address." Walked thirties - Hitler was busy.