The Haldummulla Police report that a mail carrier attached to the Soragune Sub-Post Office in Haldummulla has been arrested for concealing 2,078 undelivered postal items under a mattress in his home.
The police stated that the individual arrested is a postal employee attached to the Soragune Sub-Post Office.
Acting on information received by the Officer-in-Charge (OIC) of the Haldummulla Police, Inspector of Police (IP) Ashoka Indunil Rathnayake, that illicit liquor (kasippu) was being kept at the employee's residence, a team of police officers conducted a search. During the search, they discovered 12 registered letters and a large quantity of ordinary mail hidden under a mattress.
Upon questioning, it was revealed that the suspect had failed to deliver the mail for over six years, choosing instead to conceal the items beneath his mattress, the police added