Characters in Going Postal

Moist von Lipwig

A condemned con artist given a second life running the ruined Post Office.

Also in Making Money, Raising Steam

Reacher Gilt

The rapacious financier controlling the clacks communication network.

Adora Belle Dearheart

A chain-smoking, sharp-edged golem-rights activist and Moist's match.

Also in Making Money, Raising Steam

Havelock Vetinari

The Patrician who offers Moist his impossible bargain.

Also in Guards! Guards!, Moving Pictures, Making Money, Men at Arms, Feet of Clay, Raising Steam, Sourcery, Soul Music, Unseen Academicals, Jingo

Stanley Howler

A young Post Office employee with an all-consuming obsession with pins — a character whose neurodivergent qualities Pratchett writes with surprising tenderness.

Mr. Pump

Tolliver Groat