MACON (France), March 6: A letter of love sent by a French 13-year-old to her late mother, addressed to “Paradise Street, Heaven”, was returned to sender with a postage fine slapped on, a report said on Thursday.

On the second anniversary of her mother’s death the young girl from central France, named as Anais, wanted to send her a “message of love, like a bottle in the ocean”, according to the Journal de Saone-et-Loire newspaper.

But two days after she slipped it into a local postbox, marked with her mother’s name but no stamp, her missive was returned as a mistaken address along with a $2 fine for unpaid postage.

Asked to explain the mishap, the French post office said there really was a town in the area called Heaven – “Ciel” in French but that the street was unknown.—AFP