Postal worker

A postal worker is one who works for a

The US Postal Service employs around 584,000 people.^[1] The bulk of these work as:

• Service clerks – Sell stamps and postage, help people pick up packages and assist with other services such as passports.
• Mail sorters
  – Physically sort the mail to go to the correct place. As automation has become more common, some of these people now operate the sorting machines.
• Mail carriers – Deliver the mail. In densely populated areas this is done on foot. In urban areas the carriers often use a mail truck and drive and walk different parts of their routes. In rural areas, carriers drive to most of their stops.
• Vehicle Operator – Drive the truck/vehicle carrying mails/pallets and dispatch from one place to another.

The phrase was not very often used until a spate of workplace violence incidents by postal workers in the mid-1990s made headlines; the incidents led to the coining of the phrase "going postal".

Notable postal workers

• Charles Bukowski, writer and poet
• country folk
  singer-songwriter

Postal workers in fiction

• The Postman
• Postman Pat
• Mr. McFeely
• Cliff Clavin
• Jacob Singer
• Newman (Seinfeld character)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice

See also

• United States Postal Service creed

References

External links

• [1]
• Alabama- NPMHU State Local 317
• American Postal Workers Union