[4] Tibs worked at Post Office Headquarters in London for 14 years, and was officially employed and paid 2s 6d per week.

He was cared for by Alf Talbut, cleaner at the General Post Office in St. Martin's Le Grand (later known as GPO East), who had also owned his mother, Minnie.

Except for the cats at Post Office Headquarters who got the special allowance a few years ago, presumably for prestige reasons, there has been a general wage freeze since July, 1918, but there have been no complaints!

[5]He also hastened to assure the House that Post Office cats had "an adequate maternity service", and that equal pay prevailed in the group.

By the time of his death he had grown to 23 lb (10 kg) in weight, probably due to living in one of the staff dining rooms, rather than from eating rats.