after it left Bermuda is likely to remain one forever.

Yesterday The Royal Gazette contacted Canada Post's Quebec provincial director of communications' office but the mystery only deepened.

A spokesperson for director Louise Roy said the office had not conducted an investigation.

"It has been out of the postal system for all these years and is only of interest to journalists,'' Catherine Lortie said.

"It came out of Bermuda in 1961, and we believe that we delivered it 38-years ago,'' she continued. "It occasionally happens, but it is unusual.

"It is cute that we delivered it twice for the same stamp!'' Ms Lortie added.

The saga began after Marion and Charles Abraham mailed the postcard of Devonshire Dock to their friends Mabel and Bill Pawlowsky in Canada.

It arrived at Mrs. Pawlowsky's new home on February 10 this year.

In a recent Montreal Gazette article, Ms Roy said it is "unlikely'' that the card may have been lost at one of Quebec area processing plants as they had been rebuilt in the 1970s.