ORDER XXII.—PERSONS EMPLOYED IN TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION

Sub-order 4.—Other Workers in Transport and Communication

753.—Postmen and Post Office Sorters

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allowance deliverer

part-time worker who performs duties of postman q.v. for less than three hours daily.

assistant head postman

assists head postman (751) q.v. in supervision of postmen but otherwise performs the ordinary duties of a postman q.v.

auxiliary postman, auxiliary postwoman

performs part-time or seasonal duty as postman q.v. during periods of heavy posts, e.g. Christmas time.

auxiliary sorter

as for auxiliary postman.

letter carrier

(i) (G.P.O.) obsolete term, see postman;

(ii) carries and makes personal delivery of letter or package travelling, on sender's instructions, by tram, rail, ship, etc.

postman, postwoman ; letter carrier (G.P.O.)

delivers letters and parcels to houses, offices, etc.; collects letters from pillar-boxes and conveys them to sorting office; frequently performs primary sorting of letters and parcels (see sorter); faces up letters in street order; in rural and smaller urban areas, meets mail trains, and collects and despatches mail bags.

rural postman

a postman q.v. working in rural area; also carries stamps, etc., in pouch for sale on round; obsolescent.

sorter

(London) receives incoming mail bags, breaks seals, opens bags, and sorts contents (letters, parcels, etc.,) according to districts for delivery by postmen q.v., or for despatch to sub-sorting offices where they will be further sorted; sorts outgoing mails, and makes up and seals mail bags labelled for London districts, for provincial towns, for places abroad, etc.; sometimes specifically designated, e.g. letter sorter, parcel sorter.

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From: A Dictionary of Occupational Terms Based on the Classification of Occupations used in the Census of Population, 1921,
Ministry of Labour, 1927. Digitised by Peter Christian, August, 2016.   This text is in the Public Domain.