Longest delay in mail delivery

According to Official Guinness Records,

A bag of Indian diplomatic mail took more than 46 years to be delivered. The mail bag was found on Mont Blanc in the French Alps, near the site of an Air India plane crash from 1966. Mountain rescue worker Arnaud Christmann and his neighbour Jules Berger recovered the bag on 21 August 2012. It was stamped "Diplomatic mail" and "Ministry of External Affairs". Arnaud Christmann joked that "We were hoping for diamonds or at least a few gold ingots. Instead we got some soaking wet mail and Indian newspapers."

For a complete list of 2012 records, please visit 2012 Guinness Records in France.

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