![]() ![]() Further rumors that some of the towers may be haunted aren't helping matters, and the public are growing increasingly frustrated that their expensive messages are being delayed. His towers have been experiencing a startlingly routine series of breakdowns and mishaps, what with poor messengers falling off and everything. In the opposite corner, we have Machiavellian tycoon Reacher Gilt, head of the Grand Trunk company. The Ankh-Morpork Post Office is in what could be politely termed a moribund state, ever since the Grand Trunk company, with its ubiquitous semaphore "clacks" towers, has made it possible to send messages everywhere almost instantly.īut things are not going too well with the clacks towers. ![]() A petty con artist whose deeds have finally caught up with him, von Lipwig is spared from the gallows - actually, he's only just "almost" hanged - by Lord Vetinari, ruler of Ankh-Morpork, if he agrees to take on the job of postmaster. In this corner, the lamentably named Moist von Lipwig (Roger Ebert has an axiom about "funny" character names, in that they're almost never funny, and this seems to be another rule the infuriatingly capable Pratchett effortlessly violates). ![]() Going Postal is the outrageous story of a massive rivalry between two professional crooks. ![]()
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