An engaged Air Force veteran died after getting stuck in a mail handling machine at a United States Postal Service facility in Michigan, officials said.

Nicholas Acker, 36, was believed to have been dead for six to eight hours when a maintenance worker found him in the machine Saturday morning at the USPS Detroit Network Distribution Center in Allen Park, ClickOnDetroit reported .

Acker had spent nine years in the US Air Force and had been working at the Allen Park facility for about a year as a mechanic, according to his heartbroken fiancé, Stephanie Jaszcz.

US Postal Service workers handle packages at a distribution center in Opa Locka, Florida. Getty Images

“He was just one of those people whose sweetness and thoughtfulness weren’t just traits, they were just his way of life,” s

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