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Postal items (icon image): Several yellow post boxes in the basement
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By coincidence, the police in Norderstedt in Schleswig-Holstein came across boxes of undelivered mail from two postmen.
Officials drove to the address of a 21-year-old postman to execute an arrest warrant, the police in Bad Segeberg said.
When no one opened the apartment door, the officers discovered several yellow post boxes in the basement of the apartment building, containing addressed and stamped mail.
Mostly it was about advertising, occasionally also about personally addressed letters.
On the orders of the public prosecutor's office, the door to the man's apartment was then opened.
There, the police discovered numerous other programs, including in a kitchen cupboard and in the bed box of a pull-out couch.
Hoarded letters discovered by second postman
During the search, the 21-year-old appeared with an acquaintance, a 48-year-old postman.
Undelivered letters were also discovered in the apartment of the man who lived in the same building and in his basement.
The police ordered a truck from the Federal Agency for Technical Relief, which picked up the shipments and brought them to a postal distribution center.
Any undelivered items should now be resent.
The men are said to have opened some of the letters themselves. According to the police, the contents are now being checked and the senders are being contacted.
According to the information, the oldest hoarded letters came from May 2021.
Investigations are now underway against the two suspects on suspicion of a violation of postal or telecommunications secrecy and embezzlement.
According to the police, they are silent on the allegations.
The 21-year-old was able to avert his threatened imprisonment on the basis of a so-called compulsory arrest warrant by paying the required 30 euros.
ptz/AFP