It helps that the Grand Trunk clacks system note a semaphore tower chain which allows messages to be transmitted great distances very quickly is under new management, a gang of voracious corporate backstabbers who are running it into the ground. The next morning, he wakes up when the golem Vetinari set as his parole officer crashes through the door, bodily picks him up along with the horse he acquired, and carries them both back to Ankh-Morpork.ĭespite the complete incompetence of the existing Post staff, note (Stanley Howler, a slightly deranged boy obsessed with pins, and Tolliver Groat, an old man who believes very strongly in his homemade medicines and despite his advanced age holds the rank of Junior Postman when Moist first meets him because none of the previous Postmasters lasted long enough to promote him) Moist manages to begin rebuilding the Post Office via the application of a liberal helping of Refuge in Audacity. True to form, the first thing he does once he's loose is to run as far away as he can.

Moist von Lipwig, however, wakes up in Lord Vetinari's office, receives a pleasant speech about the nature of angels, and is 'offered' a job as the new Postmaster in charge of the now-defunct Ankh-Morpork Post Office. Albert Spangler is hanged, buried, and gets a nice little paragraph in the Tanty Bugle.

A self-admitted con man, the book opens with Lipwig (under the pseudonym Albert Spangler) awaiting execution, because he finally got caught. The 33rd Discworld book, Going Postal centers around the character Moist von Lipwig, a new main character for the Discworld.

Terry pratchett on going postal