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Dad has baby magazine delivered 19 years after ordering it (www.bbc.com)
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A father who ordered a parenting magazine for his young family in 2007 has finally received it 19 years later.

Paul Edwards, 52, said he bought a copy of Mother & Baby while his daughter was just 18 months and his son was due to be born three months later.

But the parcel never arrived - until Friday when it dropped through the letter box with a message from Royal Mail apologising "for any inconvenience caused".

Edwards, whose children are now aged 18 and 20 and at university, said he found it "just bizarre".

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[–] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You know those school fundraising magazine-selling scams they had every kid doing back in the 2000s? I got suckered into buying one as an adult; I didn't see one magazine for 5 years! Then suddenly, they started showing up at my family's house, but not the ESPN magazine I remembered ordering. It was just a random big-name magazine for a year.

I looked into it, and a class-action lawsuit was settled, but a lot of the info was lost, so they just sent whatever to people that paid.

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