Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postmaster by Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may prove an impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered...

Follows a civil servant in London in the 1950s who searches for meaning after receiving a terminal medical diagnosis.

A daydreaming bureaucrat becomes involved with an underground superhero and a beautiful mysterious woman and becomes the tragic victim of his own romantic illusions.

This book provides information on postal exams, benefits and hiring procedures. It also offers a sample test for test 473 and test 473-C, nine sample tests for address checking, five sample tests for forms completion an seven tests for coding and memory.