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Tonight’s “Cold Case” may sound familiar…

Posted in letter carriers, postal, postal crime by brian on the November 12th, 2006

If the plot summary for tonight’s episode of Cold Case on CBS sounds familiar…

When a mailman is found dead in his home, several bags of undelivered mail are discovered, including a letter postmarked 31 years ago and is now a major piece of evidence in the 1975 case involving a missing girl.

… it’s because there was a similar, real life incident (minus the ‘major piece of evidence’ part) just last month in Massachusetts, when a letter carrier died of a heart attack in his apartment, which was found to contain “truckloads of undelivered mail “.

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  1. Larry Johnson said, on November 12th, 2006 at 11:25 pm

    Just what we need–another program disparaging of letter carriers.

  2. alex said, on November 13th, 2006 at 12:09 am

    hmmm…so fiction really does mimick real life. They could make entire seasons of shows about mailmen (and women)

  3. smarterthanu said, on November 13th, 2006 at 10:40 am

    With sooo much pivoting because of no mail volume, who will be the guilty party; the provider of the pivot or the recipient of the pivot? Or both?

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