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

[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