Friday - December 20, 2013

return to sender

I don’t have anything to add to this.

It’s worth a chuckle though and so worth sharing.

Bungling French bureaucrats send census letter to Napoleon Bonaparte

French statistics body send letter to French emperor for annual census

Envelope adressed to Napoleon Bonaparte sent to his home town

Corsican resident returned letter, telling them for forward it to Saint Peter

By Sara Malm

French bureaucrats gathering information for the national census may need to go back to history class after they sent a letter to Napoleon.

Official census body Insee addressed a letter to the late French emperor – and were told to forward their request to Saint Peter.

Insee is now facing questions about the accuracy of their work as Napoleon has been dead for nearly 200 years.

The letter caught the attention of a post office worker in Napoleon’s old hometown of Ajaccio on Corsica,’ Connexion reports.

The envelope was addressed to ‘Napoleon Bonaparte, 3 rue Saint-Charles, Ajaccio,’ and had been returned with a note reading ‘Died in 1821 - please forward to Saint Peter’.

The Corsican post office returned the letter to Insee, France’s national statistics body, with a sticker saying ‘Not known at this address’.

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was recently named the second most significant person in human history by American scientists, was born on the French Mediterranean island in 1769.

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