Postal workers are expected to deliver the mail through rain, snow, sleet or hail. Punches don't quite make the list, according to a South Florida judge.
A father-son team who beat up a postal worker for not giving them their mail on the street were sentenced Wednesday to seven years in prison for their postal attack. That's a pretty steep price for not waiting to get your grocery store coupons.
Sixty-one year-old Donald Lincks will serve just under eight years in jail, followed by three years of supervised release. His son, 27-year-old Kevin Lincks, will serve 7 years in prison, and three years of supervised release.
They were found guilty of aggravated assault.
Federal authorities say in June the two asked a letter carrier to give them their mail on the street, near their home in Oakland Park. The postal worker told them he couldn't do that, since he didn't know them.
Well that didn't sit to well will the Lincks, who didn't have the attack weapon of choice for a letter carrier, a dog, so they went with the next best thing. Their fists.
Authorities say the two punched the carrier in the head and face, who later threw a rock at them. Kevin Lincks used that rock to hit the letter carrier on the shoulder.
