Australian Postal Workers Allowed to be Fatter

I can't believe there is a maximum weight limit!

clipped from news.yahoo.com SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's postal service has increased the maximum weight for its delivery staff after struggling to attract applicants weighing less than 90 kilogrammes (198 pounds), local media reported Tuesday. The old limit was designed to allow "posties", as they are known here, to carry 40 kilogrammes of mail on their small motorcycles for a total load of 130 kilogrammes, the Daily Telegraph said. "How many people weigh 90 kilogrammes? Not many. They lifted the limit to 105 kilogrammes after Honda gave them permission," said union organiser Michael Etue.

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