when the postman doesn't ring anymore

[Maggi]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/04/23/auctioned.mail.ap/index.html

[Brian Ellis]

He must also work in this country!

[UtwigMU]

Such things happen.

I knew a guy who bragged about working part time as postman during summer once, finding a letter with birthday card and 100DEM and throwing a party using the money.

[The PIT]

I like the bit that they noticed things went missing on his round but couldn't prove anything. More like they didn't try.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by The PIT
I like the bit that they noticed things went missing on his round but couldn't prove anything. More like they didn't try.

Well, they can't prove anything. You can't open other peoples' mail, so unless a recipient reports a lost package and gives them cause to investigate....

[The PIT]

Well if no one reported anything how did they know??? If you read the article they were aware that items had gone missing. So therefore it must be have been reported. The next stage would be to move the postie onto another round and if the same prob turned up then call the police in.

Like our postman who signs for signed deliveries himself. When reporting it my mother was told this doesn't happen. Yeh sure.

[az]

Hey, it's forbidden here to hand parcels to neighbours if the recipient isn't home (unless explicitly allowed), but it's standard procedure for postmen nonetheless. We also had a postman here who would put parcels into the house's lobby, free for everyone to take (while we were home! But of course he said that no one answered the bell - well, it didn't ring!), while he SHOULD have given it to us or, if we hadn't been home, dropped a notice into our mailbox and taken the package back to the post office for us to pick up. We had one parcel that we thought didn't arrive (it contained baby toys, but it was a carton of a cordless phone or something like that), that turned up in the lobby a week or so late... opened.

AZ