Just before we left our hotel in Jakarta in June, I passed one postcard addressed to Eu to be mailed by the hotel’s stationery store.

The shop assistant simply took my cash and postcard and promised to mail the postcard.

Being given no receipt, I thought that’s the last I’ll see of the postcard. But when I received an online response form from the hotel a few weeks later – and no a sign of my postcard – I made it a point to complain about this and got an apologetic reply from them.

So you can imagine my surprise when that postcard finally arrived – nearly 2 months later!

Eu was delighted to get a postcard addressed to them and spent the whole drive to school deciphering my handwriting.

And I now must write back to the hotel to update them on this.