Your petty letters or my time . . .
From Times Wire Reports
A postman in Frankfurt, Germany, hoarded at least 20,000 letters at home because he thought his work was too taxing, police said.
A neighbor saw him tipping mail into a rubbish bin and alerted police.
“It’s worth mentioning the 23-year-old didn’t deliver mail addressed to himself, either,” local police said in a statement.
He told police he got behind because of night school and felt too “overtaxed” to catch up.
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