Going Postal - When an internet-like technology appears, the power of a written letter is rediscovered..

GOING POSTAL

 

Author: Terry Pratchett

Publisher: Doubleday; New York

Date: 2004

In Going Postal, the ruler of Ankh Morpork, Lord Vetinari, recruits a con man, Moist von Lipwig, to take over the running of the largely abandoned post office, where letters have been accumulating for years without delivery. Given Lipwig's option is Postmaster or death, he reluctantly accepts, only to discover that the previous three Postmasters died grisly and mysterious deaths. Lipwig soon discovers that the chairman of The Clacks (an internet-like technology and competition to the Post Office), Richer Gilt, wants Lipwig dead and the post destroyed so that he can control all information in the land. Part of the Discworld series, Going Postal is a hilarious fantasy adventure told in the third person but from the perspective of Von Lipwig.