Paul Edwards, 52, was left baffled after the magazine finally arrived almost two decades late.

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”.

  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.caEnglish
    15·
    6 days ago

    I remember finding an old BYTE magazine from the 80s while I was cleaning out the crawl space and thought “Oh this should be fun!” expecting a nostalgic tour of ancient systems.

    But the feature article was on the RSA algorithm, explaining it in simple terms using an example involving low primes you could then scale up. It was public key crypto for dummies, but it left me understanding enough to encrypt/decrypt a message from first principles by writing a short Python script. I was like holy shit that worked!

  • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 days 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.

  • Dave @lemmy.ca
    3·
    6 days ago

    Three years later, I’m still waiting for my Amazon order. I guess it’s not coming either.