A mail deliverer was fired last week after dumping large piles of Post in Waalwijk. A passer -by found the mail and brought the letters to the police station.
“It is of course not the intention that mail items are found on the street. We have also taken measures to prevent this from happening again. The employee in question no longer works for us,” says a PostNL spokesperson. At how many mail items are involved and how many addresses have not received mail, PostNL does not give up.
Still deliver
The postal company will ensure that the mail is still delivered ‘if possible’, PostNL says so. There was a number of blue tax letters between the piles of Post. On the Facebook page of the Waalwijk police, people are worried about the dumping.
‘Are the affected people informed of this? The blue envelopes contain quite a lot of data that you don’t just want to linger around, “Marissa wonders.
Some can laugh about it. “You can keep those blue envelopes,” writes Maarten.
Thousands of letters found
It is more common that hundreds to thousands of letters, cards and other mail items are found. For example, a delivery person fell through the basket in 2022 after he had kept thousands of mail items at home for years.
At the time of the find, all letters were so polluted and damaged that they could no longer be delivered. The same thing happened in Tilburg where a delivery person who had been working satisfactorily for thirty years had left about ten thousand letters.
Where in Eindhoven and Tilburg always small amounts of mail disappeared over the years, a delivery person in Den Bosch fell faster. He turned out not to do his job for more than a month, so that around 450 addresses did not receive a mail.
The man would work one day and then not a day if he didn’t feel like it. In the end, so many people received payment memories that the bell was ringed.