Mysterious red postbox appears overnight in the middle of a Canal
Residents of a Berkshire town are scratching their heads over the appearance of a Royal Mail letterbox - in the middle of the River Thames.
An incredulous postman spotted the traditional box embedded into one of the buttresses of a brick bridge in the village of Sonning-on-Thames.
As he didn't have a boat handy, he took a photo from the riverbank to prove to his bosses just why he hadn't been able to make this particular collection in his van.
Posting a letter would be tricky too, and with the box nestled just a few feet above the water line, it would be likely to become waterlogged in the winter as this stretch of the Thames regularly floods.
Even psychic Uri Geller, who lives in Sonning, admitted he was stumped by the mystery of the letter box - how it got there, who put it there and why.
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....It is thought the letterbox was put on the bridge several weeks ago.
A postbox fascia was placed high on an outside wall of the Bull Inn in the village earlier this year but has since been removed, with staff believing it was moved to the bridge....
