Snails ate my letter from Sir David Attenborough! The airmail envelope was sandwiched between glossy election pamphlets and moisture from a day of rain had added red ink stains to the manila paper. The exposed corners had been neatly chewed away. This was a serious case of the Aussie snail mail dilemma! ‘Have they no respect? I thought, cheerily’. Before I moved to Australia I never knew that Snails could literally eat my post!

These snails were the common garden variety.

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