Article: Lazy courier delivers thousands of letters _ to his own basement


AP Online
05-07-1998
OSLO, Norway (AP) _ Bosses are usually thrilled when employees take work home with them. But not the Norwegian Postal Service.

After repeated complaints from one Oslo neighborhood, the Royal Norwegian Postal Service discovered that one mailman had been dumping bags of post in his basement, the Oslo newspaper Dagbladet reported Thursday. Investigators found about 900 pounds of letters and packages stuffed into a closet.

The culprit, who had worked as a ...

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