Lost mail? Help is at hand

IF YOU’RE fed up with those, ahem, “health supplements” you’ve ordered online from a reputable company in New Mexico ending up delivered to Mrs Nosy Neighbour up the road, salvation may be at hand.

And no longer will that, eh, “plastic-based virtual friend” you spotted in a catalogue on the top shelf be dispatched to the retired priest who shares your address on Main Street. Help is on the way, via a new postcode system that will see every home and business having their own unique address.

Conversations like the following could soon be a thing of the past: “Hello, Mick here from Punctual Parcels. Where are ya?”