{"id":13232,"date":"2020-01-24T21:17:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/postman-faces-jail-in-japan-over-undelivered-mail-mountain"},"modified":"2020-01-24T21:17:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T12:17:31","slug":"japanese-postal-worker-hoarded-24000-undelivered-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=13232","title":{"rendered":"Japanese postal worker hoarded 24,000 undelivered items"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man referred to prosecutors over mail dating back to 2003 found at home in Kanagawa<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese former postal worker faces possible charges after police discovered he stockpiled a mountain of mail at his home, reportedly saying it was \u201ctoo much bother\u201d to deliver the items.<\/p>\n<p>The man was referred to prosecutors for allegedly violating postal law, a Kanagawa prefectural police spokesman told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/24\/postman-faces-jail-in-japan-over-undelivered-mail-mountain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man referred to prosecutors over mail dating back to 2003 found at home in KanagawaA Japanese former postal worker faces possible charges after police discovered he stockpiled a mountain of mail at his home, reportedly saying it was \u201ctoo much bother\u201d t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":602,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/602"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13233,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13232\/revisions\/13233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}