"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." Or so said Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, who argued that people often don't see things in the world until an artist shows it to them.

This seems to be what occurred last February when postal workers in central Taiwan's Wurih district received a letter mailed from Japan to a nonexistent address in their area.

Rather than return the letter, supervisor Chen Huei-tse asked his deliverymen to ignore the usual procedure and try to locate the intended recipient.