Mail man: A healthy Craig Shergold holds his world record certificate (Picture: Cascade)

We can confirm that Craig Shergold is better and you can stop sending him cards – he has 350million as it is.

As a nine-year-old cancer patient, he was deluged with five sacks of mail a day after a chain letter went viral.

Now 33 and in good health, he still gets cards – albeit to his old address.

Former US president Bill Clinton, singer Kylie Minogue and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger were among his well-wishers when his family and friends started the letter to help him get into the Guinness Book of Records.


He gives Kylie Minogue a kiss in his younger days (Picture: Cascade)

‘I can remember it like it was yesterday,’ said Mr Shergold, of Wallington, Surrey.



‘The cards kept coming. I used to go to [Rolling Stones bassist] Bill Wyman’s house, he was my best mate. Arnie told me to “Keep on pumping”.’

His haul of post won him a place in the record books for 1991 and 1992 and was even the subject of a TV movie called The Miracle Of Cards.

Diane Haines, who lives at Mr Shergold’s former home, said: ‘We have lived here for 18 years and they still come at Christmas wishing Craig well.’

However, 22 years after undergoing a life-saving operation in the US – paid for by one of the country’s richest men, TV mogul John Kluge – he said others are in need of well-wishing mail.

He added: ‘I don’t need any more but there are others that do. My guardian angel, Mr Kluge, died a couple of years ago. Hopefully, there are other generous people in the world like him.’