Today is ‘Thank a mailman day’. We celebrate the enduring commitment of postal workers and couriers across the world.
Photo from the Beamish Museum. Postman delivering letters in deep snow, Stanley Crook 1936.
Photo from The Postal Museum. Postman on delivery in Battersea, London 1988.
Photo from Federation European Cyclists. Danish postal service 2012.
Photo from The Postal Museum. Postman delivering mail at Greenock 1938.
Photo by Franklin Heijnen. Mail man from the Netherlands 2015.
Postal workers return to a delivery office in west London 2010. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Flyingpostman David Funnell puts mail into a mailbox during his mail deliveries to Australian outback 2004. REUTERS/Sophie Hares
A Dinant mailman up to his knees in floodwater makes his delivery of the mail to a resident on his route 1995. REUTERS
Postman Gerhard Beck wades through the flooded streets as he delivers letters and postcards in the old part of Wertheim, 100km south of Frankfurt 2011. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
Deutsche Post DHL postwoman Bunar delivers post using a traditional boat in the Spreewald village of Lehede 2014. REUTERS/Axel Schmidt
