Drunk mailman stashed 31,000 parcels at home

Steve Tasker, 43, hoarded the "staggering" collection at his home. for up to three and a half years at his house and kept almost 16,000 mail items in or behind his garden shed.

Tasker also wrapped the letters in plastic supermarket bags to try and keep them dry because he claimed he would deliver them once he had sobered up. But he never got round to taking the post to its rightful destinations.

Tasker, then a postman for 12 years, was eventually put under surveillance by the British Royal Mail last September, after reports from the public about mail not being delivered. On the day he was observed, he didn't start on his walk until noon at the earliest, finished about 2pm and had left more than 300 packets undelivered.

He later admitted he had left the Post Office at about 9am and had then done some shopping, gone home for his breakfast, had some cider, been to the bookies and was drunk. Tasker, an asthmatic, had a "tough time" at home, looking after his wife and daughter who are both disabled, almost single-handedly - which may have been why he drank too much.

Is there a class of workers more scary than postal workers? It's a well known fact that mental health problems are rampant in the post office. Those are the good employees. The rest are too stoned to delivery the mail. Everyone knows email was invented to protect the public from postal madness.



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