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visions of The Postman
Anybody ever read Terry Pratchett’s The Postman?
Frankfurt postman arrested for hoarding truckloads of letters
A Scottish postman working in Frankfurt has been arrested after he was discovered to have hoarded an estimated 20,000 letters at his parents’ house where he lived, police said on Tuesday.
The 23-year-old told police that for the past year he had hidden and thrown out the letters instead of delivering them because he was overwhelmed with work while taking night courses to earn his high school diploma equivalency.
A neighbour saw the man tossing letters into a bin and alerted police on Monday. The authorities searched his parents’ home and found letters ferreted away in closets, a bedframe and closets. There were so many letters that police had to use two small trucks to transport them all.
Apparently mail disappearing by the truckload doesn’t raise any flags with Frankfurt’s postal service. And all these poor letters wanted is to be delivered.
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