Letters written to God are delivered to the cracks in Jerusalem's Wailing Wall

The usual way to communicate with God is through prayer, but the devoted can also write to him. God has his own postbox and address, and thousands of people send letters to it every year asking for his assistance.

All you need to write on the envelope is "To God, Jerusalem"; the postman is obliged by international law to deliver it and the correspondence will be sent to the holy city's dead-letter office, which deals with undeliverable mail.



There post room workers open the envelopes addressed to God and carefully fold up the notes before slipping them between the cracks of the Wailing Wall, Jerusalem's holiest site.

The head of the dead-letter office, Avi Yaniv, says he believes it is the closest man can get to God on earth. He said: "We receive letters to God and because we have no address other than the Wailing Wall, we put them there."



Mr Yaniv says they also receive letters to Jesus Christ, the Virgin Mary and King David, but the Chief Rabbi at the Western Wall permits only those addressed to God to be delivered. When the mail arrives at the dead letter office the staff sorts it into boxes. Correspondence destined for the wall goes into boxes marked "To God".

The people who send the letters have one thing in common, they usually want something from God. One man once sent his lottery ticket numbers in the hope that God could help him out while another, from Russia, asked for God's assistance in bedding a Hollywood actress.