I'm writing a nonfiction story about postal workers who hoard mail, and I was curious to hear why people might hoard mail? Would you do it as a favor, maybe save people from their junk mail? Or you could steal love letters and rewrite them... Well, I just wanted to hear some interesting motives. I think I would hoard mail just so that I could read everybody's personal stuff. I guess I'm pretty nosy... 😃

My mom used to hoard my mail.

I didn't get anything that was mailed to me for a year until I found it in her room.

And it wasn't even important stuff. It was like, a letter this guy sent me and college brochures my brother scent me.

I'm pretty sure she was just doing it to control me. I'm not being paranoid or anything. Seriously, she just took my stuff I would buy or was given because she thought she owned me and anything I received.

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Yeah, I'm not even sure if I would really notice if I stopped getting my mail...Sad fact of life.

You still get paper mail? 😉

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You still get paper mail? 😉

Maybe I would if my mail man weren't hoarding it! (Yeah, I'll just keep telling myself that).

It's not because I want to, I can care less since that's what internet is for these days xD, but because I have to. No one's home most of the time.

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An interesting motive for hoarding mail, huh? Well, how about grudges? Say a deranged postal worker starts seeing names of people he doesn't like, whether he knew them in high school, or from other jobs, or maybe a few exs. He might decide that a good way to get back at them is holding onto their mail for a little while. They might not know what's going on, but it's definitely not a good thing.

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How about "because they have another part-time job"?
Not sure if you can call it hoarding, but it really happened, sadly. This postman just dumped all the mails he was supposed to deliver at his home, pretended he delivered them and went off to do his part time job...

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Hoard mail? As in stealing mail?...
That's so wierd. But my mail was hoarded a few times. By neighbours...
It makes me think- what's wrong with people?...

I don't really know why they do it. Maybe because they think there'll be something interesting or valuable in there...

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There could be many reasons to hoard mail.

Identity theft, mail censorship, theft of goods, etc.

Many reasons already stated would fit.

The real question is, if you're writing a story about mail theft/hoarding, wouldn't having a reason for them to be doing it already have been thought out since it seems to be the entire basis for the story?

Coming up with the main plot theme before deciding what its about is generally the best way to go with story structure.

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My story is nonfiction, but it's not necessarily about a specific incident. The basis for it is that sometimes postal workers hoard mail. But it's more like an essay. I'm speculating on different motives for hoarding mail with some support from statistics, like one hundred million trees and 28 billion gallons of water are used annually in the production of junk mail. Later I'm going to rewrite it into a fiction story.

Some sort of mental disorder or compulsion, maybe they like the pictures on certain stamps, addresses, patterns that other people don't see. Mail collection for the sake of collecting, a fascination or just a distraction from their everyday lives.

Profit, curiosity, laziness, spite, maybe they're high; a god given sign that the fate of the world rests in their accumulation of mail in search of a particular letter.

Why would you do that? 😐

My neighbor sometimes takes my mail. My it's only because we have the same name. So she sometimes mistakes it for hers.

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I wouldn't. I'd have no desire to. That'd mean losing your job.