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A unique ‘postman’ has arrived in Australia, traveling thousands of kilometers to hand deliver a special postcard to Brisbane family.
Jonny Beardmore, nicknamed the Postman of the Galapagos, embarked on a mission in March to deliver 50 postcards left in a historic mailbox on the famous Ecuadorian islands – all the while raising money for Motor Neurone Disease (MND).
“This year I embarked on a spectacular adventure around the world, hand-delivering letters from a very special mailbox in the Galapagos Islands to unsuspecting recipients in an attempt to reconnect the world one letter at a time,” said Beardmore.
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“Inspiration for this challenge came from my father, Eric, who suffered from MND and passed away in 2022 after battling the disease for over eight years.”
MND is a condition that causes muscle weakness that eventually leads to paralysis and death.
Beardmore, originally from New Zealandsaid it hopes to raise awareness of the challenges people with MND face in traveling and communicating, while raising funds for MND charities around the world.
His deliveries have taken him across Central and South America, to North America and Canada and across Europe, the UK and Asia, where he has delivered 39 of his 50 postcards.
Beardmore continues a tradition that began in 1793 when British Captain James Colnett installed a post box on Isla Floreana in the Galapagos Islands.
Colnett uses a wooden barrel in which sailors leave letters, hoping they will be picked up by passing ships and carried to their destination, according to the island’s visitor site.
Travelers continue to post letters and postcards in the barrel, hoping that other travelers will collect and deliver them.
Beardmore, who collected 50 postcards left in the barrel, on Wednesday delivered his 40th postcard to a Brisbane man known only as Simon.
“(I’m) so excited, I just delivered the letter to Simon,” Beardmore told 7NEWS.
“I spent an hour and a half with him, he had such an amazing story.”
Beardmore said Simon’s sister ran an MND organization in Ireland in the 1960s.
“What an amazing coincidence and so close to my heart,” he said.
“I’m a very, very happy postman.”
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