I think you'll need to provide us with a runnable example that reproduces the problem (see http://sscce.org/). POSTDATA works fine for me:

{
  package SimpleSrv;
  use parent 'HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI';
  sub handle_request {
    my ($self,$cgi) = @_;
    print "HTTP/1.1 200\x0D\x0A";
    print $cgi->header(-type=>'text/plain');
    print "<<<".($cgi->param('POSTDATA')//"undef").">>>\n";
  }
}
my $server = SimpleSrv->new(8080);
$server->host('127.0.0.1');
$server->run();

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Example:

$ telnet localhost 8080
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
POST /hello HTTP/1.1
Content-type: text/plain
Content-length: 6

foobar
HTTP/1.1 200
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

<<<foobar>>>
Connection closed by foreign host.

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In reply to Re: Finding XML POST data in HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI by Anonymous Monk
in thread Finding XML POST data in HTTP::Server::Simple::CGI by Wiggins

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