Postman caught burning 3,600 letters he could not be bothered to deliver
Tuesday, November 24, 2015 @ 9:27 AM
A POSTMAN is facing over four years in jail for attempting to burn thousands of letters to avoid having to deliver them.
Police caught the accused setting fire to the pile of post and recovered 3,583 letters, but do not know how many he managed to burn.
They say he had kept the correspondence in his home in Marbella (Málaga province) for over six months.
As well as a jail sentence, the postman faces a six-year ban on holding any job or unpaid role in the public sector, and has been charged with failing in his duty of care whilst in the custody of other people's goods, and wilful destruction of property which was not his own.
He is said to have been regularly failing to deliver letters between at least August 2013 and January 2014, and instead stashing them in his home, unopened.
The accused began burning them all on January 24 that year, but was caught in the act at around 18.30hrs.
Police are unaware of how many letters had been completely destroyed by the time he was found out.
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