Message in a bottle
Posted on by Kolbe
“I sent you an email, you didn’t get it?” Have you heard this before? Or maybe you’ve uttered it yourself. If you’ve ever sent mail via the post office, I’m sure you are familiar with a letter getting lost here and there. Regardless of your communication method, sometimes those messages get lost, never to be seen again. When Richard Plat wrote a message, stuffed it into a bottle, and tossed it into the Baltic Sea over 100 years ago, I’m sure he assumed it would also be lost forever. Now in 2014, that message in a bottle from 1913 was found. What are the odds of that?!? Furthermore, a museum in Germany helped to track the origins of the letter. They were able to track down the granddaughter of the message writer. She is 65 years old and was blown away to see this message penned by her grandfather over 100 years prior. The message was simple, it just asked that whoever found the letter respond, and it gave his address. With all the hiccups and glitches in modern technology, it’s funny to see something as simple as a piece of paper stuffed into a bottle, survive for a century in the ocean. Maybe sometimes the old method is better…unless it’s time sensitive, then you may want to stick with email.