A POSTMAN was jailed for four months yesterday for dumping over 10,000 letters over a six-month period as the judge said people were depending on him and he let them down.

SENTENCING of a postman who dumped more than 10,000 letters entrusted to him for delivery over a six-month period was adjourned for a month yesterday.

A POSTMAN dumped more than 10,000 letters entrusted to him for delivery over a six-month period and yesterday his “bizarre” behaviour was put down to pressures to mind his children.