A postcard mailed from Bulgaria in 1988 has reported finally reached its Czech destination 15 years late.

The daily Dnes newspaper reports that the postcard was sent from the Black Sea resort of Nessebar by a Czech holiday-maker in the final months of communist rule.

It detours have baffled even the most experienced postal workers in Tanvald, a small mountain town in north-eastern Bohemia.

The sender told the daily that he had forgotten his sister's house number and indicated only that she lived in "newly-built low-cost housing facing the street".

But he said he thought this was unlikely to have caused the 15-year delay.

"It's more likely to have been the chaos prevailing at the time, linked to a bizarre combination of circumstances," he said.

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