Postal Worker Fired for Hoarding Letters
Posted on: Tuesday, 11 March 2003, 06:00 CST
Postal Worker Fired for Hoarding Letters
Source: Associated Press Strange News
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - Authorities have fired a post worker who squirreled away more than 400 undelivered items of mail over five years — including wedding invitations, personal letters, checks and bills — at the small town post office she ran.
A visiting postal official discovered the undelivered mail stored in the post office at Twizel last month.
None had been opened or tampered with by the contract postwoman, now in her mid-60s.
New Zealand Post spokeswoman Tanya Henderson said the woman had been dismissed from the part-time job that she had held for more than eight years.
She was "quite highly respected" in the town of 1,100 people, but "obviously the mail just got on top of her and accumulated over the years," Henderson said.
The backlog of letters was delivered to residents with notes of apology.
But officials have another problem: at least 25 letters have been returned because residents have moved away.
Twizel, is located in the center of New Zealand's South Island, 410 miles southwest of the capital, Wellington.
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