Editing Mail carrier (section)

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[[File:NYPL 1814 postman.jpg|thumb|upright|19th-century English postman ]]A '''mail carrier''', also referred to as a '''mailman''', '''mailwoman''', '''mailperson''', '''postal carrier''', '''postman''', '''postwoman''', '''postperson''', '''person of post''',<ref>{{cite web |title=Can you deliver the goods? |work=[[Royal Mail]] |year=2013 |url=http://www.royalmail.com/jobs-home-page/can-you-deliver-goods |access-date=2013-02-15|archive-date=19 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111219060424/http://www.royalmail.com/jobs-home-page/can-you-deliver-goods}}</ref> '''letter carrier''' (in [[American English]]), or colloquially '''postie''' (in Australia,<ref>{{cite web |title=Keeping Our Posties Safe |work=[[Australia Post]] |url=http://auspost.com.au/education/ourpost/students/our-post/posties-safe.html |access-date=2013-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180420203154/http://auspost.com.au/education/ourpost/students/our-post/posties-safe.html |archive-date=20 April 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Canada,<ref>{{cite web |title=Nelson: More big cheques will soon be in posties' mail |work=[[Calgary Herald]] |year=2018 |url=https://calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/nelson-more-big-cheques-will-soon-be-in-posties-mail |access-date=2020-01-10}}</ref> New Zealand,<ref>{{cite web |title=Postie |work=[[New Zealand Post]] |year=2009 |url=http://jobs.nzpost.co.nz/careers/operations/postie |access-date=2013-02-15}}</ref> and the United Kingdom<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Robinson|editor1-first=Mairi|title=The Concise Scots Dictionary|year=1987|publisher=Aberdeen University Press|isbn=0-08-028492-2|page=511|edition=1987|quote=post &c, ''16-'' postie &c, ''17-'' - ''n'', a letter carrier, ''orig'' a courier carrying mails, ''now'' a Post Office postman}}</ref>), is an employee of a [[post office]] or postal service who delivers [[mail]] and [[parcel post]] to residences and businesses. The term "mail carrier" came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for "mailman" soon after women began performing the job. In the [[Royal Mail]], the official name changed from "letter carrier" to "postman" in 1883,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.postalheritage.org.uk/visiting/familyhistory/whatdidyourrelativesdo/ |title=What did your relatives do? |publisher=British Postal Museum & Archive |access-date=4 December 2009 |location=London |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118132432/http://postalheritage.org.uk/visiting/familyhistory/whatdidyourrelativesdo |archive-date=18 January 2009}}</ref> and "postwoman" has also been used for many years.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Post Office |journal=[[The Strand Magazine]] |volume=14 |pages=221 |publisher=George Newnes |location=London |date=1897 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qZiYMsBzbEgC&dq=postwoman&pg=PA221 |access-date=6 December 2020}}</ref>