W Reginald Bray

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My favourite thing mailed through postboxes!

A lot of weird things have been delivered through postboxes (without packaging:

• there were multiple occassions of potatoes with stamps on them

• a live snake (not sure if it had a stamp :)

• a fresh salmon which stinked up the post office (uncollected for weeks)

• coconuts, again with a stamp

But my all time favourite is W Reginald Bray who managed to post himselfSo what he did was: 

• Address himself like a parcel (literally writing the destination on his own clothing/card)

• Attach the required postage

• Report to the post office counter

• Be escorted by a postal messenger to the delivery address

  
  

W. Reginald Bray, a British postal eccentric and collector. It documents his unusual activities, especially involving the postal system, and preserves a large collection of images and descriptions of his work.

wrbray.org.uk

Who W. Reginald Bray Was:

Willie Reginald Bray (1879–1939) was an English eccentric known as “The Autograph King.”

Wikipedia

He experimented with the limits of the British postal system — famously sending himself through the post and mailing odd items like his bicycle or even animals.

Ladies Who London Po

By the time of his death, he had amassed tens of thousands of unusual mailed items.

I recommend this bbc article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-42272052.amp