Topic summary
Postman
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Mail carrier.
Famous carriers
- Berry van Aerle, Dutch football player (35 caps)
- Raymond van Barneveld, who worked as a postman before becoming a professional darts player
- Olivier Besancenot, candidate for the French presidential elections in 2002 and 2007
- Peter Bonetti, Englishgoalkeeper who played for Chelsea F.C.
- Charles Bukowski, novelist and poet who wrote Post Office
- Allan B. Calhamer, the inventor of board game Diplomacy
- Jean Cameron, Scottish World War 2 postwoman who changed the uniform to allow trousers.
- Steve Carell, American actor
- Ferdinand Cheval, who spent 33 years building an "ideal castle"
- William Faulkner, who quit after being at "the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp"
- Ace Frehley, original guitarist for the rock band Kiss, worked as a mailman before he became the "Spaceman"
- Domingo French, mailman of the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata, turned into revolutionary and soldier during the May Revolution
- Vic Godard, English punk musician, founder of the Subway Sect, became a postman midway through his music career
- Terry Griffiths, a former postman who became a world-champion snooker player
- David Harvey, a goalkeeper who became a postman after leaving football
- Rudolph Hass, developer of the Hass avocado
- Gladys Hillier, English postwoman, inspiration for the title of an album by Fairport Convention
- Brad Hogg, an Australian cricketer who is a former Perth postman
- Elsie Johansson, Swedish poet and author who worked at the postal office for around 30 years before she'd her literary debut at the age of 48.
- Alan Johnson, the former UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer
- Kimeru, a famous Japanese pop singer, worked as a mailman before he pursued his singing career
- Keith Knox, a Scottish footballer who also worked as a postman throughout his 25-year career
- Tom Kruse, MBE was a mailman on the Birdsville Track in the border area between South Australia and Queensland
- Stephen Law, philosopher. Expelled from school and worked as a postman until being accepted to Trinity College, Oxford to study philosophy
- Charles Mingus, jazz musician
- Jan Nyssen was a mailman from 1977 to 1997 in Liège (Belgium) and became a Professor of Geography.
- John Prine, Grammy winning folk singer
- Bon Scott, former lead singer of AC/DC was once a 'postie' in Australia
- Allan Smethurst, English singer known as "The Singing Postman"
- Snowshoe Thompson, mail delivery on skis
- Neil Webb, English footballer who became a postman after leaving professional football