Editing Mail carrier (section)

===Female carriers===
[[File:Female mail carrier during WWI.jpg|thumb|upright|Jeanne Decorne, a female auxiliary mail carrier collecting mail in Paris during [[World War I]] about 1915]]
Women have been transporting mail in the United States since the late 1800s. According to the United States Post Office archive, "the first known appointment of a woman to carry mail was on 3 April 1845, when Postmaster General [[Cave Johnson]] appointed Sarah Black to carry the mail between Charlestown Md P.O. & the Rail Road "daily or as often as requisite at $48 per annum". For at least two years Black served as a mail messenger, ferrying the mail between Charlestown's train depot and its post office."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/women-carriers.pdf |title=Women Mail Carriers |date=June 2007|website=About.usps.com |access-date=2015-07-15}}</ref>

At least two women, Susanna A. Brunner in New York and Minnie Westman in Oregon, were known to be mail carriers in the 1880s. [[Mary Fields]], nicknamed "Stagecoach Mary", was the first black woman to work for the USPS, driving a [[stagecoach]] in Montana from 1895 until the early 1900s.<ref>{{cite web |author=Drewry, Jennifer M. |url=http://www.cascademontana.com/mary.htm |title=Mary Fields a pioneer in Cascade's past |publisher=Cascademontana.com |access-date=2013-12-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729174246/http://www.cascademontana.com/mary.htm |archive-date=29 July 2012}}</ref> When aviation introduced [[airmail]], the first woman mail pilot was [[Katherine Stinson]] who dropped [[mail bag|mailbags]] from her plane at the Montana State Fair in September 1913.<ref name="usps women">{{cite web|url=http://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/women-carriers.pdf |title=Women Carriers |website=About.usps.com|access-date=2009-03-02}}</ref>

The first women city carriers were appointed in World War I and by 2007, about 59,700 women served as city carriers and 36,600 as rural carriers representing 40 per cent of the carrier force.<ref name="usps_women">{{cite web |author=Historian USPS |title=History of Women Carriers |work=Postal People |publisher=USPS |date=June 2007 |url=http://www.usps.com/postalhistory/_pdf/WomenCarriers.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508223754/https://www.usps.com/postalhistory/_pdf/WomenCarriers.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=2009-05-08 |access-date=2009-03-02}}</ref>