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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Ascension Island has been without post since October because the Royal Mail has been sending its mail to South America.
"The trouble is virtually nothing has made it here since October," IT consultant Paul Knowles told Monday's Daily Mirror.
A British dependency with a population of just over 1,000 people, Ascension Island is 703 miles (1,131 km) northwest of St Helena in the South Atlantic.
The Mirror said the mail had been mistakenly sent to Paraguay's capital Asuncion as well as Guyana's capital Georgetown, which shares the same name as the Ascension Island's capital.
"Steps have been taken to make sure it doesn't happen again," a Royal Mail spokeswoman told the Mirror.
"The number of flights we can use is limited, so it is taking time, but this mail is not all lost."
Providing an important communications staging post, the island is used as a relay station for cables between South Africa and Europe and during the Falklands conflict in 1982 was used as a halfway-house for the British task force.
"The trouble is virtually nothing has made it here since October," IT consultant Paul Knowles told Monday's Daily Mirror.
A British dependency with a population of just over 1,000 people, Ascension Island is 703 miles (1,131 km) northwest of St Helena in the South Atlantic.
The Mirror said the mail had been mistakenly sent to Paraguay's capital Asuncion as well as Guyana's capital Georgetown, which shares the same name as the Ascension Island's capital.
"Steps have been taken to make sure it doesn't happen again," a Royal Mail spokeswoman told the Mirror.
"The number of flights we can use is limited, so it is taking time, but this mail is not all lost."
Providing an important communications staging post, the island is used as a relay station for cables between South Africa and Europe and during the Falklands conflict in 1982 was used as a halfway-house for the British task force.
