The Patrician has noticed that the quality of the communications has deteriorated ever since they bought the Clacks network, but he fails to persuade Gilt to change his ways. Vetinari meets with the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, led by Reacher Gilt, who have taken full control of the Clacks. Stanley and Groat are initially distrustful of Moist and appear to be afraid of a mysterious presence that is haunting the building. It turns out that in recent months, Vetinari has tried to revive the business, but four Postmasters have already died in mysterious accidents. Only two staff remain: Tolliver Groat, an aged 'Junior' Post Officer, and his assistant Stanley Howler. Moist begins work at the Post Office, once a thriving business that collapsed, leaving the building as a decaying shell full of piles of undelivered letters. Once outside he immediately flees the city, but is apprehended in Hapley by his new parole officer, a golem called Mr. Since walking out the door will result in death via a semi-disguised pit of spikes, Moist accepts the job. Lord Vetinari, who had arranged for Lipwig to only be hanged 'to within half an inch' of his life, offers Moist a job as the new Postmaster General, or he can walk out the door and 'never hear from me again'. However, the hangman fakes his execution and Moist wakes up in the Patrician's office. Moist von Lipwig is a travelling fraudster who is finally arrested in Ankh-Morpork under the name of Albert Spangler. Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope. Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way. Getting a date with Adora Belle Dearheart would be nice, too.

Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet.īut he's got to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

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