Pooping postman will keep job

Remember the pooping postman? He heard the call of nature while delivering the mail in a Portland neighborhood last month, dropped his trousers and defecated in a yard.

Just like your family dog. Though it's not clear that he had a plastic bag to clean it up.

And now the rest of the story: He gets to keep his job.

Portland TV station KATU reports that the Postal Service has decided that the crapping mailman will keep his job but on a different route.

The Postal Service says the action was taken after an investigation, according to the station.

He had been put on unpaid leave after the incident came out, thanks to a man who caught the unsightly scene on his camera.

"We trust people like the postal service and meter readers and people of that nature," the man with the camera, Don Derfler, told KATU in April. "To come on to our property and to defecate - it's just wrong."

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