16,000-mile trip for pupils’ card

IT was a simple thank you note posted by primary school pupils to a riding centre only three miles away.

But the card ended up on a 16,000-mile round trip after it was sent to the South Atlantic rather than a village in Fife.

Pupils of Auchtermuchty Primary School sent the letter addressed to Kirsty Tudor, who runs Toppy Star Pony Hire in nearby Falkland and donated a gift voucher for the school’s Christmas Fayre.

However, postal staff misread the address and sent the card 8,000 miles to the Falkland Islands, before workers on the archipelago redirected it and sent it back.

The riding centre finally received its card – sent before Christmas – at the weekend.

Miss Tudor said: ‘The school contacted me for a gift voucher for the raffle for their school fair and kindly wrote me a wee thank you Christmas card. But it went all the way to the Falkland Islands and arrived back here on Saturday.’