A man is travelling 37,000 miles around the world hand-delivering postcards to strangers which were left on a remote Pacific island as part of a 200-year-old tradition.
Londoner Jonny Beardmore has spent the last five months visiting countries across the globe after taking it upon himself to become "the Galapagos postman."
He collected 50 letters from an ancient post box on Isla Floreana in the Galapagos and is now forking out £50,000 delivering them by hand over the next 12 months.
Since setting off in March, the one-man delivery service has been knocking unannounced on intended recipient's doors - from the USA to Iceland to Brazil.
The 51-year-old will continue his journey for 365 days across seven continents until he drops off his final letter on March 1,2025 - while raising money for MND research.
Londoner Jonny Beardmore has spent the last five months visiting countries across the globe after taking it upon himself to become "the Galapagos postman."
He collected 50 letters from an ancient post box on Isla Floreana in the Galapagos and is now forking out £50,000 delivering them by hand over the next 12 months.
Since setting off in March, the one-man delivery service has been knocking unannounced on intended recipient's doors - from the USA to Iceland to Brazil.
The 51-year-old will continue his journey for 365 days across seven continents until he drops off his final letter on March 1,2025 - while raising money for MND research.
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00:00You're never going to believe this. I was walking down the street of Godalming and Ellsworth
00:05and Ellis recognised me from my appearance at Yesterville when I was in Winnipeg in Canada
00:11and they offered me to bring me in and buy me a drink and they actually know the people
00:17that I'm trying to deliver the letter to who were not home and now they've messaged them
00:21and I'm going round to deliver it and they know I'm coming. Unbelievable!
00:28Hello from St Pedro, Belize. I've got a letter here for Steve. It's a love letter but it's
00:42not got an accurate address and I don't know who it's from so I'm trying to track him down.
00:47I'm here with the Postal Service of Belize and they've given me some advice on where
00:52to send the postcard. Six miles north. We're going to find you Steve.
00:56So we've come up to the Nautical Crab for Music Circle on Mondays to see Steve as well.
01:04We've tracked down Steve.
01:06To see Steve at Trivia Night.
01:17Delivered the letter to Steve at St Pedro. It's taken a while. It's been legendary.
01:32We've been drinking cocktails. We've had a great time. Oh, I love this job.
01:48Here we are in Mexico City. It's letter delivery day number 8 and I've got Dolly Beth to give me a hand.
01:53Say hi. Hi guys.
01:57This is the apartment building. It looks a bit nondescript which is good. It's good.
02:03It's not a gated community. Yay!
02:06So the buzzer to the door doesn't work so we're going to have to wait until somebody comes in or out.
02:14We've found somebody inside. They won't let us in but they're checking to see whether or not they're on the WhatsApp group.
02:20Whether or not somebody's home.
02:23He's not there.
02:25Yay!
02:31Okay. I wrote it, yay. For my mom. Yay!
02:43Here's the letter I have here. That was from Alex over here.
02:49This is for her mom, Carly.
02:57Hi, I'm Alex. This is my mom, Carmen, and we're from Mexico City.
03:01And thanks to the Galapagos Postman, we received the 8th letter from Stephen.