Malaysia postman jailed over mail

A Malaysian postman who hoarded more than 21,000 pieces of mail in his house has been sentenced to three months in prison and fined two months' pay.

A police raid on Muhamad Fakhrudin Ibrahim's former home found 21,650 letters, four registered items and an express letter going nowhere fast.

Some had been missing for four years.

When the police caught up with him, the postman told reporters his salary of $150 a month was not enough to make it worth his while delivering the mail.

But in court he appears to have changed his tune, and his lawyer told the judge that Mr Muhamad now wants to go back to his old job.

His defence team blamed the post office, saying that if they bothered to keep track of registered and express items they would have realised far sooner that something was wrong.