Samantha Williams,who now lives at the address,said circumstances surrounding the postcard’s backstory,first reported bythe BBC,remained a mystery. Williams said one of her children initially thought it was a Christmas card.
Signed by a man called Gerry,the postcard features the Sydney Opera House,which at that time was less than 10 years old.
“It had been sent from a man called Gerry in Sydney and addressed to Steve Padgett or Padge,who we believe lived here with his parents in the 1980s,” she said.
Gerry,who gave his address as 1 Dawes Point,Sydney,2000 appears to have had his own problems receiving mail,telling his mate Padge that he’d only just read correspondence from him dated May 8 – more than three months earlier.
“Sorry to have not been in touch,but what can you say about colonial practices!” he wrote,saying he was having a brilliant time and promised to write in detail the next day.
Williams said she’d love to find the man the postcard was addressed to and give it to him.