Children's chain letter - is this for real?

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Yorkiegirl · 14/10/2004 08:33

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misdee · 14/10/2004 08:36

royal mail dont have time to moniter it. its all done by machine. chains letters should go in the bin imo.

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Yorkiegirl · 14/10/2004 08:36

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wild · 14/10/2004 08:51

We had this one, I rang Guiness World Records and its a complete hoax, Royal Mail are peeved about postal issue as well and advice was BIN it! I actually phoned family who'd sent it to us and told them that, they were friends and I was surprised they passed on such a letter. Guiness says, if it comes via school tell school, they really want it stopped.

roisin · 14/10/2004 09:07

We had this one too Yorkiegirl; PO are very peeved about it, and ours arrived with postage to pay. We went and picked it up at the PO and paid for it, and were very cross when we saw what it was. It was from a friend of ds1's (in yr2 at the time) but had clearly been written by a parent.

We actually took it in to the school, and passed it on to the Head teacher, who did an assembly based on it, and the fact that it was 'cheating' people, and the PO.

luckymum · 14/10/2004 10:21

We've had this letter several times over the last 5 years - the date that its to be continue to just gets extended. We had postage to pay too and it went in the bin!

yurtgirl · 14/10/2004 20:11

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popsycal · 14/10/2004 20:13

these were going round when i was a kid in the 1980s
bin it

PicadillyCircus · 14/10/2004 20:17

I remember this going around about 20 years ago when I was at school. And Roy CAstle was on the Guiness Book of records saying it was a fake.

So I should think it still is.

CleanKittyCat · 14/10/2004 20:25

Chuck it straight in the bin Yorkiegirl. These things have been around FOR EVER. Never send on a chain letter, nothing will happen to you. Going since 1996 ? more like 1976 I recieved one back then ha ha, I binned it after talking to a teacher. I'm still here

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Yorkiegirl · 14/10/2004 20:35

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marthamoo · 14/10/2004 20:49

I hate chain letters. And chain emails. I had a horrendous chain email once with photo's of a car crash in it (allegedly the car of a person who had broken the chain). It didn't bother me a jot (I have a delete key and I know how to use it ) but I imagine some people would have been very upset or worried by it.

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