Hundreds of school reports have disappeared after a Wellington school posted them directly to parents in an effort to stop them getting "lost" in the bottom of bags.
South Wellington Intermediate School sent out nearly 600 reports at the end of term two in early July but only about 80 made it to their destinations.
The other 520 reports are somewhere in limbo.
"It is a real inconvenience," Principal Traci Liddall told Newshub on Wednesday.
She says the letters were sent at great cost to the school, and each report is hours of work for teachers - work which has now gone to waste.
The school didn't realise the mishap until the second week of term three, before parent-teacher meetings.
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Liddall says the school will have "quite a discussion" about the best way to approach sending reports next term.
The letters were sent by mail to ensure they weren't "left at the bottom of students bags", according to Liddall.
It also meant children who are not from nuclear families, around 20 percent of the school in total, have letters sent to both parents living separately.
In the future, emailing reports is an option; however Liddall told RNZ not all parents with children at the school have Internet.
NZ Post told Newshub they will investigate what happened to the missing reports, but the investigation could take time, as the reports were not tracked.
It said there were many reasons letters could go missing such as wrong addresses and stamp issues.
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