美上世紀郵件剛剛抵達俄羅斯目的地英語美文

美上世紀郵件剛剛抵達俄羅斯目的地

Next millennium delivery for Russian mail shipment

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Post has started delivering 4.5 tonnes of letters and parcels that were sent from the United States in 1999.

俄羅斯郵政部門近日開始投遞一批總重量達到4.5噸的信件和包裹，而這些郵件其實早在1999年便已從美國寄往該國了。

The state-owned postal service said the delay was not its fault -- a shipping container with the mail inside had languished at a port in Finland for years.

據路透社12月15日報道，俄羅斯郵政部門表示，上述郵件之所以被耽擱了這麼長時間，其真正的原因是裝載那些郵件的一隻海運集裝箱多年來一直被棄置在芬蘭的一個港口內無人過問。

The container finally reached Russia on December 8.

該集裝箱最終於12月8日被運抵俄羅斯。

"The loss of mail usually happens because of force majeure circumstances, such as natural disasters, traffic and other accidents," Russian Post told Reuters via e-mail."All of the mail has been very well preserved because the container was hermetically sealed."

俄羅斯郵政部門表示：“造成郵件丟失的具體原因通常是某些由外部環境帶來的不可抗力，諸如自然災害、交通及其它方面的意外事故等。由於那隻集裝箱的密封性極佳，所以時至今日裏面的郵件依然保存完好。”