(No, unfortunately, it was not a spammer being caught and owned.)
Wolverhampton, UK - George Chryssides, who is a teacher at the Wolverhampton University, is being sued for sending too many letters. Strange? Senseless? The motive behind the lawsuit: postman Alan Pugh, 53, claims to have suffered from a pulled muscle for carrying too much weight. Pugh says the teacher put 270 letters in a post box in the city center.
Due to the pulled muscle, Pugh took a week off and lost the pay of that week: £286.96. Chryssides denied liability, saying that postmen are supposed to know how to deal properly with post boxes when they are full. He also says Pugh is just doing a thing that is already common in the US: the sueing lottery. He is straight right: this case is comparable, for example, to the one of the obese man who sued McDonald’s for his obesity. Chryssides also denies having posted 270 letters.
Royal Mail spokeswoman Jane Beese says there is no limit to the amount of letters people can send by mail, but when there is too much, they should be posted in the post office instead of post boxes. Also, postmen from the Royal Mail staff are now allowed to carry more than 16 kg (close to 32 lbs), including the bag where they take the letters.
The action is being funded by the Communication Workers’ Union. The legal part of it will take place in the Birmingham County Court, to where papers have been sent.
Quick side note: the letters had small bulletins in them and were addressed to members of the British Society for the Study of Religions.
Edit - source: BBC
-Ren, reporter wannabe, would have used email instead of paper.