Post Office Employee Disposes 7 Thousand Undelivered Letters, 'I'm Tired'

JAKARTA - Police in Tondabayashi City, Osaka Prefecture, arrested a 20-year-old post office employee on suspicion of violating the Japan Postal Law. He purposely threw away about 7,000 undelivered letters.

This postman is named Yasuyuki Hara. The police said that Hara had admitted to all the accusations, as quoted from Japan Today, which reported on the Sankei Shimbun, Wednesday, January 19.

"It was very tiring to deliver the letter, so I took it to my car and threw it away," Hara told police.

Some of the discarded letters contained vaccination tickets sent by the local municipality to residents to be inoculated against COVID-19.

Police said Hara emptied mail bags in a wooded area in Sakai City's Mihara Ward on Jan. 16. He was spotted by a passerby who called the police.

Hara told the police that he started bringing home undelivered items in the fall because he didn't want to bother delivering them. About 4,000 letters were found at his home.