I don’t know what amazes me more:
That Watanabe was kept 50,000 pieces of mail in her apartment.
That postal customers didn’t complain or if they did, it didn’t result in Watanabe getting caught earlier.
Or that, there has been such a history of postal workers doing this that they’ve developed a well-known defense of the volume on their routes beingso onerous that they opted to hide the mail instead of delivering it.