A 27-year-old woman in French Polynesia is to appear in court in December for stealing and hoarding mail.
The Tahiti-infos says the mail theft on Hao atoll was discovered by the woman's mother-in-law who found a bag of letters at her house, containing up to 10,000 letters.
She advised police who then detained the postal worker and in a search of her home, found hundreds more unopened letters.
The postal service is now distributing the mail items which had been collected over a two-year period.
