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Late post

Sunday 15 August 1993 18:02 EDT
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A first-class letter sent 30 miles by a man in York to Tom Laycock, of Leeds, in January 1990, was delivered 43 months late with a Royal Mail stamp saying 'sorry for the delay'.

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