Saudi mail chief saves girl’s marriage

Saudi Arabia’s express mail’s director broke his weekend holiday to save the marriage of a local girl who appealed for him to act after a delay in the delivery of a wedding dress she had ordered from another city.

The bride sent an urgent message to Hamad Al Bakr on his Twitter page saying: “Do you accept that the Saudi Express Mail kills the delight of a bride on her wedding day.”

Bakr said: “I replied to her quickly saying I don’t accept it… I asked her to provide me with the parcel number and I later found that the shipment arrived from Jeddah to Riyadh on Thursday evening after it was sent on Tuesday…

“As you know it was Friday when she sent me that message… so I phoned one employee and asked him to quickly open the post office… I took the shipment, put it in my car and hurried to Hureimla town after she gave me their address… I delivered the wedding dress to the delight and joy of the bride and relatives,” he added, according to the Saudi Arabic language daily Alyoum.

Son steals dad’s ‘life savings’

A Saudi man who decided to sell the family house and buy a new one in another city managed to get nearly SR1.1 million (Dh1.05 million), which he happily deposited in the bank. A few days later, he was shocked to find only SR850 (Dh840) in his account.

When he was told by the bank that his son withdrew the funds, he went straight to the police and filed a robbery case against the son.

“The father was hoping to buy a new house in Dammam… when he checked his account, he found that only SR850 was left… he told the police that his son stole his life savings,” Alyoum daily said in a report from the eastern province of Ihsaa.

The paper did not specify the son’s age or say how he managed to withdraw the money from his father’s account.

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