The look of someone who is missing their advent calendar (Picture: Facebook/ Brittany Maher-Kirk)

A cat might not be able to pick up his Christmas advent calendar from the Post Office because he has no ID.

No, that isn’t the plot to a children’s story – this is actually happening.

Brittany Maher-Kirk’s mum recently posted her cat an advent calender, and as a joke wrote the name of the cat – Ted Maher-Kirk Lindsey – as the recipient.

Unfortunately no one was home when the package arrived (Ted may have been, but we assume he was too busy sleeping or sitting in a circle), so it was taken to the package collection room in the local Post Office.




As anyone who has ever received one of those dreaded red slips will know, the folks at the Post Office are very strict when it comes to ID, and demand that the person who the parcel is addressed to must come in and collect it in person.

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Poor Ted, how is he going to explain this one (Picture: Facebook/ Brittany Maher-Kirk)

Sadly Ted doesn’t have any ID (or the ability to speak English) and so can’t retrieve his package.

Brittany, from London, said: ‘I’ve got to ring up the Post Office Head Office and explain that my mother has sent the cat an advent calendar, addressed to the cat, and he can’t pop in to pick it up himself or lend me his ID to do it for him…’

Metro.co.uk has contacted the Post Office to see if they are willing to bend the rules… just this once.

UPDATE:

Royal Mail have now confirmed that Ted the cat has received his parcel!

However they suggest that pets expecting important post should ask their owners to use their name, just in case.

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