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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. Back in 1989 or 90, my carrier in Boulder, CO was found to

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Fri Jan 31, 2020, 12:44 AM

Jan 2020

not be delivering all of the mail, but stashing it in his back yard instead. I believe he simply didn't sort or deliver the third class stuff, which meant that actual letters and the like got through. It was the advertising fliers and the like he tossed in his back yard.

And he was a nice guy. Always cheerful, always a smile on his face. We called him "The hippy-dippy mailman".

I think he got away with not delivering the stuff for around a year, and was caught because some people complained about not getting expected ads from local stores.

I suspect this sort of thing happens more than we know. Most of the time it doesn't go on for long and they're caught.

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