A Japanese man may have received a late Christmas present today when he opened his mailbox to find 3 million yen (IR£20,000 approx) in cash inside.
The man, an office worker in the city of Yokohama just west of Tokyo, told police he went to get the morning newspaper and found a paper bag stuffed full of yen in the mailbox.
He has no idea where the money came from, a police spokesman said.
The notes were not new and there were no clues as to whose they might be, but the spokesman said police were planning to take fingerprints and contact nearby financial institutions.
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Should nobody step forward to claim the money over the next six months, the man will be able to keep it, the spokesman added.