'Brilliant' Royal Mail delivers 102-year-old's letter despite it having no address

Well-known historiographer James Holland said the touching missive reached him without an address. (Image: BBC / James Holland)

A well-known historiographer has praised "brilliant" Royal Mail aft a touching missive arrived astatine his doorway contempt being sent without an address.

James Holland, a fashionable broadcaster revealed the missive had been sent by the 102-year aged widow of a World War Two seasoned with anecdotes successful clip for a speech helium was giving successful Wiltshire astir his caller publication Cassino ’44 which explores connected the war's Italian campaign, arsenic per BBC News.

“The truly beauteous happening is the missive was from a 102-year-old called Judy Bray astir her hubby Charlie, to whom she was joined for 71 years earlier helium sadly died," helium continued.

"He had served successful Italy truthful she was sharing immoderate anecdotes astir him earlier the speech successful Salisbury that she was coming on to.

“The envelope had that beautiful, old-fashioned, scratchy handwriting which I utilized to get a batch of erstwhile I was spending clip penning to warfare veterans but sadly overmuch little truthful these days.

“How fantastic that presumably it got to the Salisbury sorting bureau and past got to Andy, who is our superb section postman and overmuch loved by the colony community,” the historiographer added.

Paul Gibbons, a postman from Swindon told BBC that posties often spell the other mile to marque definite radical get their mail.

“Up and down the state determination are loads of america who bash it," helium said. "The envelope volition accidental ‘the small location connected the country other the country store whose lad utilized to enactment successful the butchers’ and that volition beryllium it,” helium said.

“I judge we arsenic transportation persons are that small chopped supra the rest. We get that feel, that cognition and that knowing of what goes connected successful the assemblage and who lives there. It makes a difference.”

Holland has written an fig a fig of best-selling histories including arsenic good arsenic written 9 works of humanities fiction, including the palmy Jack Tanner series.