Postal worker admits pocketing HK$22.50

A worker at Tsat Tsz Mui post office admitted in Eastern Court yesterday to using old stamps and pocketing the postage payment meant for mailing a package. Kan Wai-yip, 30, kept the HK$22.50 on February 16 because of rumours that Hongkong Post would be privatised and he feared losing his job as a contract worker, defence counsel Stephen Hung said. Kan pleaded guilty to one count of obtaining property by deception. Sentencing is on April 14.