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Mailman
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Postman
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Letter Carrier
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Parcel Delivery Agent
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02-02-2006, 12:36 PM
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#1 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
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Okay since I've only gotten 5 hours of sleep and I'm kind of funky in the head: what do you call your postman?
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02-02-2006, 12:46 PM
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#2 | | Senior Member
Join Date: May 2000 Location: The Reflecting God
Posts: 4,002
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Originally Posted by cornflower Okay since I've only gotten 5 hours of sleep and I'm kind of funky in the head: what do you call your postman? |
What, no choice for "letter beotch"?
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02-02-2006, 01:06 PM
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#3 | | Moderator
Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Scotland
Posts: 4,657
| He is the postman - unless the mail doesn't arriv; in which case he is *$"£*%$$*%&$&%^ son of a (&*^%&^$£ %^$£&^%$)(*^^%.
I once answered the door to my postman (actually a postwoman) in a skirt (no not a kilt - a skirt) and the next day in a duvet. I think she thought I was after something - when in fact all I wanted was to be handed my mail.
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02-02-2006, 02:01 PM
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#4 | | the dark one
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: MA/NH line
Posts: 3,825
| Actually, I call mine BOB - and he is my mailman. (The postman may ring twice, but the mailman leaves my mail in the mailbox.) He's very sweet. Unlike the nasty people that work in my local branch office, who are looking rather edgy this week, for some odd reason... Keep looking over their shoulders at the emergency exit and such...
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02-02-2006, 05:37 PM
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#5 | | Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 10,235
| I feel like there's some sort of bimodal distribtution of postal workers, where half are very cool and helpful (a few I meet behind the counter, the postal workers who were dads in my scout troop, and the letter carriers I've had at home and apartment), and the rude useless unhelpful ones you find behind the counter when all you want is to get a Priority mail box and the rack is all out. | |
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02-02-2006, 06:53 PM
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#6 | | Épéeist Hive Queen
Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Sweden
Posts: 12,774
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Originally Posted by cornflower what do you call your postman? | None of the above.
The person delivering post to me (whom I've never seen, by the way) simply is brevbäraren. 
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02-02-2006, 09:11 PM
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#7 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: right here, on your screen
Posts: 1,673
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Originally Posted by cornflower what do you call your postman? | Это - он, это - он, Волнат-Крикский почтальон
seriously, I don't call him/her anything - they change too often and I rarely see who it is anyway
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02-02-2006, 09:15 PM
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#8 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Linköping/Sweden
Posts: 109
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Originally Posted by Zilverzmurfen None of the above.
The person delivering post to me (whom I've never seen, by the way) simply is brevbäraren. | What Zilverzmurfen just said, the best translation from swedish to english regarding this particular kind of transfer of goods would indeed be "Letter Carrier". | |
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02-02-2006, 11:31 PM
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#9 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 7,180
| I call him the caveman. Nah, not really, though he does look like one of those 80's hair metal guys, right down to the bandanna, unruly hair, and sleeveless postal worker shirt. He looks a little something like this: http://sptimes.com/2005/07/07/Weeken...tensions.shtml
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02-03-2006, 08:08 AM
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#10 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Singapore,
Posts: 478
| a common attitude with me and my friends. "nobody cares"
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02-03-2006, 08:39 AM
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#11 | | moose rules!
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Switzerland
Posts: 1,863
| don't call em anything, never see him/her/it......
nor am I curious what's in da box since it's invoices only all the time, very few exceptions I can count on the fingers of both of my hands for one year. Sad ey? Result of email......and even there I've gotten lash....
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02-03-2006, 09:43 AM
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#12 | | the dark one
Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: MA/NH line
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Originally Posted by Pauli don't call em anything, never see him/her/it...... | Oh my god, this is what Santa Claus does the rest of the year!!!!!!!!!!!! Mystery solved.
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02-03-2006, 10:33 AM
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#13 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2004
Posts: 1,975
| Postman Pat, Postman Pat,
Postman Pat and his black and white cat,
All the birds are singing, and the day is just beginning.
Pat feels he's a really happy man.
Lalalalalala
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02-03-2006, 12:21 PM
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#14 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: The City of Roses
Posts: 905
| I referr to mine as "the jerk who keeps damaging my mail when he stuffs the letters into my mailbox!!"
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02-03-2006, 01:31 PM
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#15 | | moose rules!
Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Switzerland
Posts: 1,863
| and besides, this poll is flawed since there's no option for not calling him anything........ 
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02-03-2006, 03:52 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Ithaca, NY
Posts: 1,012
| Person person.
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02-04-2006, 01:30 AM
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#17 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
Posts: 349
| Thats like person man, who if I remember my They Might be Giants songs correctly, is beaten by triangle man.
By the way, I do not speak to my postman. I'm usually to busy trying to get to the mail before my father finds anything from my school I dont want him to see....
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02-05-2006, 04:55 PM
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#18 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Oregon, USA
Posts: 1,373
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Originally Posted by PerfectKnight42 Thats like person man, who if I remember my They Might be Giants songs correctly, is beaten by triangle man. | I identify more with Universe Man.
My mailman always stops to chat during deliveries...a very friendly fellow, and probably doesn't read my letters.
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02-05-2006, 10:57 PM
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#19 | | Scavenger
Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 4,674
| My mailman is John. The one before that was Arthur, or "Artie" as his colleagues called him, who wore a hat with earflaps and ran away if you opened the door because he was terminally shy. He slipped on our front porch once doing that and broke his collarbone.
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02-06-2006, 12:35 AM
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#20 | | Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: DC & Vancouver
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Originally Posted by Peach My mailman is John. The one before that was Arthur, or "Artie" as his colleagues called him, who wore a hat with earflaps and ran away if you opened the door because he was terminally shy. He slipped on our front porch once doing that and broke his collarbone. | HILARIOUS!
But... poor bastid. 
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