postwomen
Women delivering letters
Postwomen is the plural of postwoman—a female letter carrier or mail delivery worker.
The term is chiefly British, as Americans typically say mail carrier or letter carrier.
The postwomen on our route always wave to the children.
Those delivering letters professionally
- couriersProfessional delivery personnel
- delivery routesScheduled paths for transporting goods
- mailbagsContainers for sorted letters
- uniformsStandardized institutional clothing
sorting · parcels · postmistresses · Royal Mail · USPS · civil servants · government employees · post office
First to explore territory
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- workplace equalityFair treatment at work
- 1940sFourth decade, twentieth century
discrimination · gender roles · women workers · breakthrough · public service · social change · equal opportunity · hiring practices
mail carriers
Those delivering letters professionally
- couriersProfessional delivery personnel
- delivery routesScheduled paths for transporting goods
- mailbagsContainers for sorted letters
uniforms · sorting · parcels · postmistresses · Royal Mail · USPS · civil servants · government employees · post office · routes
pioneers
First to explore territory
- trailblazersThose who open territory
- labor movementOrganized effort for worker rights
- workplace equalityFair treatment at work
1940s · discrimination · gender roles · women workers · breakthrough · public service · social change · equal opportunity · hiring practices
- postal servicepost office, mail, sorting machine, stamps, stamp