Gentleman steals over 1,000 pounds of mail while working as postman

[Carla_Sinclair]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/30/gentleman-steals-over-1000-po.html

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[NashRambler]

I get so much junk mail, I feel like giving this guy 1,000 pounds of mine. Here, 200 lbs alone is pizza menus. The other 800 lbs are credit card offers.

[Papasan]

What prison is he living in now? I want to be his pen pal…

[anon48584343]

[Sqyntz]

general aversion to work seems a more likely explanation. just saying…

[Glaurung]

Between guys like this and fedex trucks getting hit by trains, it’s a miracle any mail gets delivered at all.

[knoxblox]

It would be sad if his pension check got lost in the mail…

[Boundegar]

You know he’ll never get your letters.

[dman]

“Well…maybe a man’s busy, got a full round, maybe it’s Hogswatch, lots of cards, see? and the inspector is after him about his timekeeping, and so maybe he just shoves half a bag of letters somewhere safe…but he will deliver ’em, right? I mean, it’s not his fault if they keeps pushing, sir, pushing him all the time. Then it’s tomorrow and he’s got an even bigger bag, ’cos they’re pushing all the time, so he reckons, I’ll just drop a few off today, too, ’cos it’s my day off on Thursday and I can catch up then, but you see by Thursday he’s behind by more’n a day’s work because they keeps on pushing, and he’s tired anyway, tired as a dog, so then he says to himself, got some leave coming up soon, but he gets his leave and by then—well, it all got very nasty toward the end. There was… unpleasantness.

Terry Pratchett - Going Postal

[CoffeeStar]

Will return and insert the Will Ferrel “I am not even mad” meme when I have a spare moment.

[Blaze_Curry]

I remember reading that this sort of thing is always related to the hoarding illness. Like, some doctors looked into it and found that these postpeople who hoard the mail are bonkers 99% of the time.

[L0ki]

@Blaze_Curry

I remember reading that this sort of thing is always related to the hoarding illness. Like, some doctors looked into it and found that these postpeople who hoard the mail are bonkers 99% of the time.

I’m always a bit suspicious of diagnoses like that. I mean, it seems as though the diagnostic process goes: This guy’s kept 20 years worth of mail in his garage. That’s nuts. Clearly he’s bonkers.

It’s not that it’s wrong, it’s just not exactly as strong an example of medical science as one might hope.

[Blaze_Curry]

Nah, they actually did proper evals; what they found was that they were all crazy.