The laziest mailman we’ve ever met.

We all have days when we can’t really be bothered to do our job, but for William Morse, his apathy has led to a prison sentence.

The 34-year-old mailman from Dawson Springs, Kentucky, has been given a six-month prison sentence with a further six months home detention, after it was discovered that he’d failed to deliver thousands of letters.

Capt. Craig Patterson told USA Today: ‘He wanted to speed up his route. I think he was lazy.’

His crime came to light when the owner of a storage facility he was using to stash some of his undelivered letters spotted the U.S Postal crates and called the police.


Yes. That’s quite a lot of undelivered mail right there.

Thousands more letters were then found in the basement of his dead mother’s house.



Morse’s lawyer explained that his client was going through a divorce and was responsible for collecting his children during the day, so would ‘store’ the mail he didn’t have time to deliver.

Let’s be honest: it’s rare that any of us get anything other than a bill through the post, but that’s not the point. If it has our name and address on it, we want it.

Postman Pat would not approve.

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