Sri Lanka, Oct. 22 -- Police who raided the house of a postman found over 2000 letters allegedly hidden under a mattress in the suspect's house. The raid was prompted after Haldummulla Police OIC Inspector Indunil Ratnayake received information that a 42-year-old postman attached to the Soragune Sub-Post Office in Haldummulla was selling illicit liquor.

Police found 2078 letters addressed to various people inside a mattress when the team of police officers searched the suspect's residence at Harankahawa in Soragune on the evening of October 20. The batch of letters included 2065 regular letters and 13 registered letters.

When the suspect was questioned, police said he confessed that for six years he had been hiding the letters he had to...