Photo - Wild Animals, Midge Point – the Postie will get through
How is this for a story - 40 years late. A recent News.com article told the story of how the Viewbank Tennis Club were astonished to find a box delivered by Australia Post of sew-on patches, believed to have been ordered in the mid-1970s.
The reason given by Australia Post: The box apparently fell behind some machinery at an Australia Post sorting centre, only to be discovered decades later as staff prepared to move.
All those people who have been told their cheque is in the mail and never get it - might now know where all those envelopes are!
Celebrity deaths of 2020: Sir Sean Connery, Dame Barbara Windsor and more
Here are some of the high-profile figures who said their final goodbyes over the last 12 months
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Sir Sean Connery, Dame Barbara Windsor and Caroline Flack were among the stars who died in 2020.
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Wednesday December 30, 2020, 6:44 PM
Sir Sean Connery, Dame Barbara Windsor, Bill Withers, Chadwick Boseman and Caroline Flack were among the stars who died in 2020.
A year like no other began with the shock death of basketball star and Oscar-winner Kobe Bryant before a pandemic upended life as we knew it.
Here are some of the high-profile figures who we said goodbye to over the last 12 months:
January
Neil Peart
Peart, the drummer from Canadian prog-rock trio Rush, died aged 67 following a battle with brain cancer.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl led the tributes and Peart was lauded as one of the greatest drummers in rock ‘n’ roll history.