Overview

• A Cologne resident received a post crate with 173 letters, including 171 addressed to the placeholder name and two correctly addressed to her household.
• After consulting the city election office, the postal service withheld 96 similar mailings for review.
• The printing contractor is auditing its processes to determine whether additional misdeliveries occurred.
• City officials said any attempt to vote with these documents would be flagged and removed during sorting at the election office.
• 'Max Mustermann' is commonly used in Germany as a placeholder name, which explains why it appeared on the misprinted materials.