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 Twelve-year-old Mathew Flores is a bit different from the rest of us. He loves junk mail. 
 
 Until recently, advertisements were the only reading materials available to the boy. Flores loves reading so much that he approached his mailman in a Salt Lake City suburb on Friday to ask if he could have any junk mail. 
 
 The strange question prompted the mailman, Ron Lynch, to ask why. Lynch detailed Flores' response in a heartbreaking Facebook post afterward. 
 
 "Today while delivering mail to his apartment complex, I saw him reading ads, and then he asked me if I had any extra mail he could read," Lynch wrote. "He told me his wish is to have books to read. I told him the library had many, but he said they don't have a car, and couldn't afford the bus." 
 
 Lynch then asked his Facebook friends if they could spare some books for Flores: 
 
 "Most kids his age want electronics! It's great to see his desire, and you should have seen him beam when I said I could help!" 
 
 "He's counting on me," he concluded, "so I'm counting on you!" 
 
 Lynch thought the Facebook post might bring in 50 to 6o books, he told local news outlet KSL. But his request went viral. 
 
 People from around the world, including the U.K., Australia and India, have sent books, Lynch said. He told The Huffington Post hundreds of books have been delivered to the boy's door so far, with hundreds more likely on their way, and he's amazed at the generosity. ||||| The seed for Wide00014 was: 
 
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 Ron Lynch was delivering the mail when he spotted 12-year-old Mathew Flores fishing advertisements and newsletters out of a junk mail bin. The boy told the mail carrier that he was looking for something to read. 
 
 Reading, he says, is interesting. "Plus, it gets you smarter," he says. 
 
 "A young man was standing here reading junk mail and asked me if I had any extra," recalled Lynch, who works for the Sandy Post Office. 
 
 Struck, Lynch started a conversation with the boy. Mathew told the mail carrier that he reads the advertisements because he doesn't have books of his own and that bus fares made it difficult to get to the library. 
 
 If Mathew couldn't get to the library, Lynch decided to bring the library to him. 
 
 "I started reading at a very early age. My mother instilled a love of books in me," Lynch said. "At 12 years old, he didn't want electronics, he didn't want to sit in front of the TV playing games all day, the kid just wanted to read." 
 
 Lynch shared a picture of Mathew on Facebook, hoping a few of his friends would have some books to spare. The post spread worldwide, and even before Lynch arrived at Mathew's home Sunday with a box of reading material, strangers who had read the post had already sent their contributions. 
 
 "It's gone crazy from there. I've heard from the U.K., Australia, from India," Lynch said. 
 
 Mathew's doorbell has been ringing for days as books have arrived. 
 
 "They said, 'These books are for you,'" Mathew said Sunday. "I thought they were mistaken, but they were for me." 
 
 He smiles as he promises to read every book, then share them with other children. 
 
 "I'm just super happy," he said. 
 
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– It all started when Ron Lynch, a mail carrier in Sandy, Utah, spotted a boy sifting through ads and newsletters in a junk mail bin. The boy, 12-year-old Mathew Flores, asked Lynch if he could spare any junk mail because he was looking for reading material; Lynch suggested the library, but the child said his family had no car and he couldn't afford the bus fare. Moved, Lynch snapped a photo and posted a story about the boy's plight on Facebook last Thursday. "You should have seen him beam when I said I could help!" reads the post. "He's counting on me, so I'm counting on you!" The Internet stepped up to the plate: Though the Huffington Post notes that Lynch thought his post might lead to the donation of 50 or 60 books, people from around the world have sent hundreds of books to the somewhat shell-shocked Mathew. "At 12 years old, he didn't want electronics, he didn't want to sit in front of the TV playing games all day, the kid just wanted to read," says Lynch, who adds that his own mother instilled in him a love of reading at a very young age. Now he's explained to Mathew that he might get thousands of books, and Matthew says he promises to read every one, and then to share them with other children. "They said, 'These books are for you,'" Mathew tells the Deseret News. "I thought they were mistaken, but they were for me. I'm just so happy." As for the deliveries, Lynch had this to say on Facebook yesterday, "He had about 7 packages today! 6 yesterday, [and] I expect to be crushed with mail tomorrow." Want to participate? Send to: Mathew Flores, C/O Sandy Post Office, 8850 S 700 E, Sandy, Utah 84070. (Check out how this mail carrier saved a man's life last week.)