Ananova:

A pensioner accidentally sent a cat in the post after it sneaked inside the parcel she was sending to her nephew.

Edith Schonberg, 67, from Rosdorf in Schleswig Holstein, Germany, posted the birthday parcel without noticing Felix had crawled inside for a catnap.

She believes the three year old tom must have found his way into the package while she was searching for some sticky tape.

The mistake was only spotted when a postman at the central sorting office realised there was an animal inside the parcel and called police.

Mrs Schonberg said: "I had not even noticed he had gone until they called, I thought he was asleep in the airing cupboard."