Here is an interesting report from the UK’s Telegraph which shows that a Royal Mail worker has been sentenced to 32 weeks in jail after keeping over 31,000 parcels of mail at his house for over 3 years after not completing his route due to being drunk on the job.
Steve Tasker, 43, hoarded the “staggering” collection at his home. for up to three and a half years at his house and kept almost 16,000 mail items in or behind his garden shed.
Tasker, then a postman for 12 years, was eventually put under surveillance by the Royal Mail last September, after reports from the public about mail not being delivered.
On the day he was observed, he didn’t start on his walk until noon at the earliest, finished about 2pm and had left more than 300 packets undelivered.
He later admitted he had left the Post Office at about 9am and had then done some shopping, gone home for his breakfast, had some cider, been to the bookies and was drunk.
The hearing was told Tasker, an asthmatic, had a “tough time” at home, looking after his wife and daughter who are both disabled, almost single-handedly- which may have been why he drank too much.
It cost the Royal Mail £1,530 to sort all the undelivered postal packets and finally send them to the rightful recipients.
Who does that???
