Envelope returned to sender 51 years after being posted

Sales Administrator Sharren Bradshaw
and the 51 year old letter

~ Contents of letter is a mystery for Cressall Resistors ~

Staff at Leicester based manufacturer Cressall Resistors had a blast from the past when an empty envelope was returned to them 51 years after the original letter was posted.

The letter was sent in September 1959 from Standard Engineering, in Evington, Leicester, to a shoe machinery company, Albeko, in Frankfurt, Germany. On top of the postmark was a recent note from the German post office stating that the address was not known and that the letter had been returned.

The Standard Engineering premises are now occupied by electrical firm Cressall Resistors. The company manufactures the giant power resistors used in industries ranging from rail and electrical generation to the built environment and environmentally friendly electric cars.

Sales administrator Sharren Bradshaw said: "I was doing the company's post and I noticed the old-fashioned type on the envelope. I thought it might be some kind of prank at first. So I carefully peeled back the German post office sticker on the front and found the postmark said 1959. Sadly, the envelope was empty. It looked like it had been cut open with a guillotine. It was probably an envelope with an invoice inside it originally."

Cressall Resistors’ managing director, Peter Duncan, said the reason the letter had taken over 18,500 days to make the round trip to Frankfurt and back remained a mystery. "The envelope is in good condition and it looks like it was posted last week."

Duncan, who has worked on the premises for both Standard Engineering and Cressall Resistors said, “Happily this letter can’t have been too essential, otherwise it would have been missed. Trust it to turn up 51 years after being posted!”

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About Cressall Resistors: The world's foremost power resistor manufacturer, Cressall Resistors, offers an unrivalled combination of experience and expertise as well as the UK’s widest range of resistor technologies. Cressall’s customers include ABB, Siemens, Areva and Alsthom as well as major utilities such as Central Networks, Yorkshire Electricity, EDF and Scottish Power. The company also works with countless smaller specialists such as Street Crane, Digital Lift Controls and Computer Protek Systems. Indeed, because of the fundamental nature of Cressall’s product almost everyone in the electrical industry will have cause to contact the company at some point; making the Leicester based business a bellwether for the health of the sector itself.

Ref: CRE089/03/11