Have you ever thought of a man who delivers postcards, newspapers and mail in general to your house every day? Do you know what kind of work does letter carrier do to make you well-informed, happy and satisfied? Probably some out of there know your personal postman by sight and shake your hands on meeting?! Nevertheless, these people serve well.

Besides, a postman goes under different names in various countries. For example, sometimes he is known as a mailman or letter carrier in North America or New Zealand and a postie in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Nowadays women work and manage on a level with men, therefore the term “mail carrier” came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for “mailman”.

It would be interesting to know that in the United States, the official label for a mail carrier is “letter carrier”. There are three types of letter carriers: city letter carriers, who are represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers; rural letter carriers, who are represented by the National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association; and Highway Contract Route carriers, who are independent contractors.

By the way, I came across the article ‘Work of a Rural Postman in 1891′. The life of a rural postman was very hard in 1891 due to the duties than included:

“Not to carry parcels by their string . . .”
“No calling ‘by’ while working . . .”
“No smoking on duty . . .”
“No lobbying about pay and conditions to the public . . .”
“Not to be connected directly or indirectly to the ownership or management of a public house . . .”
“He is forbidden to agitate for the discontinuance of a Sunday delivery.”
“He must live where he starts his walk.”
“Uniform to be worn at all times when on duty.”

And it must be mentioned that everybody can work as a postman. Any special education and degree is unnecessary. Candidates are selected following an aptitude test and interview. If you have a calling for this job, you are reliable, honest and trustworthy and want to follow it, try it!

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What can you say about Australia? A green continent populated aboriginals and kangaroo?! What else?

System. Australia’s post services offer a broad range of competitive and customer-responsive mail and speciality for all Australians. Australia Post is trading name of the Australian Postal Corporation, the government-owned postal service with a monopoly in Australia. Australia Post has established itself as the most comprehensive provider of parcels and logistics services within the Asia–Pacific region.

Over the last 15 years, Australia Post has broadened its product and service range and invested in major technology-based infrastructure programs. Today, it operates in three core areas: letters, retail and agency services, and parcels and logistics. It offers delivery services, retail products, financial services (such as bill payment and banking through its retail network), logistics and fulfilment services, and direct marketing and database management services.

History. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps. First stamps issued in 1850, Victoria (1850), Tasmania (1853), Western Australia (1854), South Australia (1855) and Queensland (1860). Under section 51 of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution 1900, “postal, telegraphic, telephonic, and other like services” became a Commonwealth responsibility.

Postage stamps. Australian philately proper begins on 2 January 1913 with the issue of a red 1d (one penny) Kangaroo and Map, the design of which was adopted in part from the entry that won the Stamp Design Competition. This was the first definitive stamp with the sole nomenclature “Australia”.

• Australia’s first airmail-designated stamp appeared on 20 May 1929. A special 3d (three pence) airmail stamp was available for mail sent on the Perth-Adelaide air service.

• Australia’s first commemorative stamp was issued on 9 May 1927 to mark the opening of the first Parliament House in Canberra.

• The first Christmas stamp appeared on 6 November 1957. In recent years, designs for the Christmas issue have alternated each year between the religious and the secular.

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For those who never heard of such country as Kazakhstan I would like to say rather more about its location. The Republic of Kazakhstan is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of northern and central Eurasia. It is bordered by Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and China. The country also borders on a significant part of Caspian sea.

And some words on postal history of Kazakhstan. Under the Soviet Union, the Kazakh SSR postal service was an integral part of the Soviet system. The republic was periodically recognized in sets of stamps honoring the different parts of the USSR.

Stamps. Its first stamp, depicting a warrior’s suit found at the Issyk mound in 1969, was issued 23 March 1992. The first definitive stamps were a set of five issued in 24 January 1993, four of which were a stylized design consisting of a yurt and spaceship (alluding to the country’s Baikonur Cosmodrome), along with a high value of 50 rubles depicting the flag of Kazakhstan. New stamps issued in the first half of 1994 were initially sold as denominated in tijn, then later in tenge. The yurt-and-spaceship design was re-issued in the new currency beginning in July 1994.

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