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Person who works for a post office

Apostal worker is one who works for apost office, such as amail carrier. In theU.S., postal workers are represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers,AFL–CIO, National Postal Mail Handlers Union – NPMHU, the National Association of Rural Letter Carriers and theAmerican Postal Workers Union, part of the AFL–CIO. InCanada, they are represented by theCanadian Union of Postal Workers and in theUnited Kingdom by theCommunication Workers Union.

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. Inurban areas the carriers often use amail 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 ofworkplace 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

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Charles Bukowski, writer and poet
John Prine, Americancountry folk singer-songwriter

Postal workers in fiction

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References

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^Postal Employees Stats at a Glance Archived 2009-01-31 at theWayback Machine

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