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UK Royal Mail Trials Pigeon Post Again – Delivers to Wrong Century
In an attempt to improve service, the Royal Mail has revived pigeon post, but the birds are reportedly delivering mail to the 19th century.
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The FY Times Staff
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Victorian Deliveries
Royal Mail partnered with English Heritage to trial ‘Heritage Homing’ – pigeons trained to deliver to 1890s postal codes. 47 % of test letters arrived in Victorian times; recipients baffled by stamps bearing King Charles III and QR codes. One pigeon dropped a Netflix cancellation notice through Charles Dickens’s skylight in 1857.
Factual nugget
Rural post delays exceed 40 % in 2025 (Ofcom); pigeon navigation uses magnetoreception proven in 2021.
Nonsense twist
Dickens replied with a 400-word rant about ‘streaming devilry.’