#postalexperiment

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Fly My Pretty, Fly!

I decided to recreate Pigeon Post by attaching a message to Percy’s leg

After he flew off an Post wrapped Percy up in what seems a suffocation risk.

Percy arrived in his new home the next day.

Air Mail With Pigeon Express news story from 1978

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Anagram Address

Not Delivered Yet

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Valentines Chocolate

The Mrs, the romantic devil, wrote on some chocolate and posted it.  Honestly she did, I am not posting valentines to myself. Delivered the next day.

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Jefferson Cypher

The third president Thomas Jefferson invented a system to make secret codes in 1795. It uses spinning wheels to make a message unreadable. I made a wheel where the 6 disks spin to encrypt my address

This is it some sort of singularity of futility. A black hole of pointlessness. I don’t think I can imagine anything less necessary. Thanks to everyone who read, liked and shared the blog. You really shouldn’t have been encouraging me. And thank you to An Post. Goodnight and good luck. PS send your friends postcards 

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Audio Address

I got a record your message birthday card and recorded my address as the message.  Delivered in a bag explaining that an Post had to open it

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Scratch Card Address

Scratch Card address: not delivered. This took two nights of testing. Then a night of painting several layers of silver acrylic mixed with washing up liquid onto some sellotape. I know I say this so often that the words have lost all meaning but this really is the stupidest thing I have ever done.  

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Lift the Flap Letter

Delivered

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Encrypted Address

Addresses tend to be boringly plain text. I decided to liven up the postmans day with an encoded address. I put a rotating grill on top of the ciphertext address.

Delivered in normal time. They should have gotten An Post working on the Enigma machine.