![]() ![]() He works under a sadistic supervisor, The Stone, an archetypal villain who shrewdly maintains buddies in high places, allowing him to work the subs to death. He goes on to become a sub, and finally takes the exam to become a regular mail carrier. Postal Service accidentally, signing on for an allegedly easy job helping to deliver Christmas cards. ![]() With Betty, his "shackjob," he drinks away their income in an open relationship. Henry ("Hank") Chinaski is a middle-aged alcoholic with an attitude. Having awakened from a terrible drunken spree, Henry looks back at a career that has broken him physically, and at the sexual and gambling adventures that have kept him going. Henry is a middle-aged alcoholic willing to buck any system, void of ambition, yet exhibiting superior intellect and reasoning. Post Office, by Charles Bukowski, is the self-revelation of Henry ("Hank") Chinaski. ![]()
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