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Mail Games: Testing the System | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration

2008 Oct 15, 10:47The artist Harriet Russell encodes the destination postal address of her letters with anagrams, crosswords, and other puzzles: "Despite fears of a Royal Mail backlash, Russell found the system more than willing to play her game. The crossword edition was returned completed with the comment "Solved by the Glasgow Mail Centre". Only 10 of the 130 letters posted lost their way through the system, some held particularly testing anagrams, others were without a postal code."PermalinkCommentshumor puzzle crossword art mail postal-system harriet-russell book
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