Italian police have arrested a former postman accused of deliberately hiding up to nearly half a ton of packages and letters.
Reported by the Daily Mirror, the unidentified postman deliberately kept and did not send a package or a letter that should be delivered to the recipient of the letter because he felt the salary is too low.
33-year-old man was known to resign from his job as a postman since last year. But he claimed to have not sent a letter to the recipient since three years earlier.
Police managed to uncover a case that was considered a theft of the letter after they found dozens of unopened letters in the backseat of the suspect's car.
They were suspicious after stopping a suspect's car in a routine operation in the city of Turin. Police also found a folding knife in the suspect's car.
After the discovery of dozens of letters in the car, the police decided to search the former postman's residence in Turin.
There they found piles of letters and postal parcels, in the form of letters, bank bills, and personal correspondence of up to 40 boxes. It is estimated that there are thousands of letters not delivered in the boxes.
"I was not paid enough so I choose to quit," said the suspect quoted from the police report.
This case of mailing and post office is not the first time. At the beginning of this year alone, the police have arrested a former postman who also hoarded undelivered letters at his home in Vicenza. The perpetrator was a 56-year-old man who was arrested in January.
Police have also arrested a postman in Sardinia who has stockpiled up to 400 kilograms of letters not delivered for four years.
Stealing, destroying, or hiding letters or packages that do not belong to him in Italy is included in a criminal offense that can be threatened with a one-year prison sentence.
Reported by the Daily Mirror, the unidentified postman deliberately kept and did not send a package or a letter that should be delivered to the recipient of the letter because he felt the salary is too low.
33-year-old man was known to resign from his job as a postman since last year. But he claimed to have not sent a letter to the recipient since three years earlier.
Police managed to uncover a case that was considered a theft of the letter after they found dozens of unopened letters in the backseat of the suspect's car.
They were suspicious after stopping a suspect's car in a routine operation in the city of Turin. Police also found a folding knife in the suspect's car.
After the discovery of dozens of letters in the car, the police decided to search the former postman's residence in Turin.
There they found piles of letters and postal parcels, in the form of letters, bank bills, and personal correspondence of up to 40 boxes. It is estimated that there are thousands of letters not delivered in the boxes.
"I was not paid enough so I choose to quit," said the suspect quoted from the police report.
This case of mailing and post office is not the first time. At the beginning of this year alone, the police have arrested a former postman who also hoarded undelivered letters at his home in Vicenza. The perpetrator was a 56-year-old man who was arrested in January.
Police have also arrested a postman in Sardinia who has stockpiled up to 400 kilograms of letters not delivered for four years.
Stealing, destroying, or hiding letters or packages that do not belong to him in Italy is included in a criminal offense that can be threatened with a one-year prison sentence.
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