The magazine was a copy of Mother & Baby, ordered by Paul Edwards in 2007 before the birth of his son, and delivered on Friday to his Chester home with a Royal Mail apology for “any inconvenience caused”. Edwards, now 52, had originally signed up for parenting advice; his children are now 20 and 18. Royal Mail said the item was likely put back into the postal system by someone rather than lost internally. The delivery coincided with an Ofcom investigation into Royal Mail for missing delivery targets, after the company disclosed that 24.3% of first-class mail failed to arrive on time in the year to March, up from 23.5% the previous year.