The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series. Perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope. Language: EnglishKeywords: Discworld Going Postal Making Money Moist Von Lipwig Raising Steam Terry Prachett. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too. But there are people who still believe in it, and Moist must become one of them if he's going to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, an evil chairman. The post is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology. Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork - the Discworld's city-state - back on its feet. Con artist and fraud Moist von Lipwig is faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so o ld that it had magically become new again. The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is. Kindle 7.99 Rate this book Discworld 33 Going Postal Terry Pratchett 4.40 118,162 ratings4,061 reviews Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. 'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The Times
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