Postman who stashed 3,300 letters gets suspended sentence
Friday, January 5, 2018 @ 7:09 PM
A POSTMAN who stashed the mail for 11 years as he could not be bothered to deliver it has been sentenced to two years in jail.
Juan José P. T., who covered rounds in Ibi (Alicante province) and Ontinyent (Valencia province) between 2002 and 2015, had hidden 3,272 letters in his garage in Alcoi (Alicante) since 2004 to avoid having to work his shift.
The State post office took him to court, and the process has just finished after nearly three years following an appeal and an out-of-court settlement between the State Law Service and Juan José's defence.
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