Time change glitch sends German man 1,700 identical tax letters

The mountain of letters was delivered to the man in the town of Quickborn, north of Hamburg. — Photo by Alexander Grey on Unsplash

BERLIN: A man in Germany received 1,700 copies of a letter from the tax office.

His application to access the government's platform for paperless electronic tax returns was made during the last weekend of October, when clocks were set back an hour, a spokeswoman for the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.