Mailman Made His Delivery, Then Folded the Laundry

Gurpreet Singh is being applauded after bringing in an Aussie resident's bedsheets as it rained
Posted Aug 22, 2025 11:56 AM CDT
Mailman Made His Delivery, Then Folded the Laundry
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An Aussie mailman is being called a "laundry hero" after he took the time to bring in a resident's laundry during a drizzle. Per CNN, Gurpreet Singh was making a delivery on Aug. 14 to Verrity Wandel's home in Logan, about 40 minutes outside of Brisbane, when he decided to take the time to remove some bedsheets hanging outside on Wandel's clothesline, moving them to drier quarters. Wandel, meanwhile, who wasn't home at the time, imagined her laundry "being wrapped round and round the line" in the rain, "or embedded in the garden," she tells CNN affiliate 9News.

When she returned home, however, the sheets were no longer on the clothesline, leading Wandel to think her husband had brought them in—until she checked out her security footage, where she saw Singh folding the sheets he'd removed and placing them near her door, per 7NEWS. "It is something that probably would have happened in my parent's era or in a smaller community, but it is not something you would expect today," she says.

Wandel shared the surveillance footage on Instagram, and also showed herself and Singh smiling together for the camera. Singh, for his part, says he just wanted to do something nice. "I like helping," he tells 7NEWS, noting he'll regularly assist customers "by taking the parcel upstairs for them, that sort of thing." He says that in Wandel's case, "I knew no one was home because they didn't come outside" as the rain started. "I turned my back and saw the sheets on the clothesline, and it just came to my mind to do that." Singh says he and Wandel plan on meeting for tea soon.

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Singh's 15 minutes of internet fame have earned him some new fans as the video has gone viral. Tejinder Singh, a fellow Sikh who lives nearby, tells CNN that the postal worker is known in the community for his acts of service, in keeping with his faith: "When I saw this act, I knew that he wasn't doing it for any publicity or anything, that's just who he is."

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