HUNDREDS of letters were found floating in the river.
Residents in three areas of Pahang have not received their mail for more than a month.
And now, a postman in Bentong has turned himself in.
Utusan Malaysia reported that residents of Sungai Chamang, Taman Saga and Kemasul had not received any mail for more than a month.
It came to light when a resident in the area went fishing at Sungai Chawang and landed himself a strange catch.
He found a stack of undelivered letters floating in the river. Over the next few days, more stacks of letters were found.
HUNDREDS OF LETTERS
In all, according to Utusan Malaysia, six to seven stacks of letters, each containing 30 to 40 letters, were found.
Based on the dates on the envelopes, it appears the residents in the area had not been receiving their mail since last month.
The resident who made the find declined to be named. he told Utusan Malaysia that among the letters he found were bills, letters from the tax department and other documents, many of which had been destroyed by water.
After the first report appeared on Saturday, a 20-year-old postman surrendered himself at Bentong's district police headquarters at about 12.30pm yesterday.
Bentong district deputy police chief deputy superintendant Mohd Fakri Che Sulaiman told Utusan Malaysia that the man admitted to committing to the offences and had gone to the police station alone.
DETAINED
The man had apparently been a postman for just a few months and has been detained for further investigation.
Meanwhile, the hundreds of letters that have been recovered have been taken to Bentong post office.
This is not the first case of undelivered mail in Malaysia.
In 2004, it was reported that for at least four years, a Malaysian postman stashed undelivered mail at home. His hoard of 21,000 letters was recovered.
The former postman had squirrelled away piles of letters, telephone bills, bank statements and even magazines.
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Letters are not theirs why they want it anyway? :confused2: