In 1964 a "penniless" man posted himself from UK to Australia in wooden box in order to meet her daughter at her birthday.
Reg Spiers, desperate to return home, survived the 63-hour journey via Paris, Bombay and Singapore, News.com.au reported.
The champion javelin thrower showed up out of the blue at the East London flat of his close friend, English javelin thrower John McSorley and presented him with his problem.
Too impatient to work and save up the money for a plane ticket, together Spiers and McSorley hatched a harebrained scheme to build a timber box and send Spiers back to his home country via air freight.