My remark was sarcastic. Moderators will do that for each other. Mod 1 wants a post deleted so s/he asks Mod 2 to take care of it. It gets handled. Or the Mod deletes the post and says s/he didn't.

I read a post by a Mod a few years back in which it was said in essence that "I never delete a post if it looks like I have an issue with the person I would delete." Of course that is true. The Mod simply gets a friend to do it.