Don't Kill This

Ok, so the task was to send a postcard and get it returned to your home without communicating the address in an obvious manner...Que the puzzles, crosswords, quizzes and numerous other possible solutions the unfortunate postal workers of Buckinghamshire had to deal with throughout October. I decided to play the law of averages, using two very different concepts and hoping that if I sent two, I would have more chance of recieving at least one of them...Whether that even makes sense or not, I'm not quite certain...



These two options are the items I decided to inflict upon the High Wycombe postmen in the hope of waking up one cold, October morning to find them both sitting happily on our welcome mat. However, the story does not have a happy ending, only one of the cards came home...any idea which?!

Well I'll tell you anyway, the one displayed on the bottom here was unfortunately lost somewhere in the vast postal network meaning that our winner is the ransom style card displayed above it. I felt all along that the result would be the opposite, expecting to see the wordsearch style idea return to base. The address is highlighted on that design with invisible ink and the pen attached reveals the said "invisible" ink to emphasise the exact address...on the back "please colour me in" was written to hint at how the answer could be found. However, as it has not yet returned, I have finally beginning to accept that I may never see it again.

Now...onto the winner...the ransom note postcard one might call it. Speaking to a friend of mine he told me he knew someone who worked in a sorting office and that if an item of mail comes in with no obvious address visible a sticker is placed on it, which reads "kill it." A tad harsh one might think. The text reads don't kill this followed by my house number and postcode and low and behold a few days later it was returned to a grateful recipient...

Not the outcome I expected but the unexpected is often more satisfying don't you think?