Red mailbox and posts delivery bike seen at Shinjuku district, Tokyo.

A 61-year-old mailman was not able to deliver 24 thousand letters, so he hid all the mail in his home, in the town of Yokohama, Japan. He did this so that nobody would suspect anything. The crime was uncovered by the Japanese police in January of this year, after the town’s mail service noticed that thousands of letters were missing.

The man, whose name was not disclosed, said it was “very complicated” to deliver mail. He decided to hide the letters at his house so he would not seem less competent than his younger colleagues. The mailman was fired. If he is considered guilty because of his behaviour, he will have to pay 20 thousand reais in fines or even go to jail for up to three years.

The local mail service promised to deliver all the letters to their recipients, some of them dated from 2003.

QUESTIONS

1) Which is true?
A)
Mail in Japan is delivered by drones.
B)
The mailman spent 61 years hiding letters in his home.
C)
The man sold 24 thousand letters.
D) The man said that delivering the mail was very complicated.


2) Have you mailed or received a letter? What do you think about this experience?

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