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Second class

Published on
August 30, 1996
Last updated
May 27, 2015

Hopefully no one from the international postal commission will have spotted that Derek Quintock managed to send a postcard from Malaysia (THES, August 9) using a stamp from Sri Lanka. Was the irony intentional? I think we should be told.

DAVE RILEY Department of geography and environmental studies University of North London JOHN CASTLEFORD Deparment of geography University of Leicester

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