Mailmen (Person).

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What is your mailmans (Mailpersons?) name?

Don't you mean postman/postwoman? I don't know my postman's name. Postman Pat maybe?

If they say "mail" in the US then why do they still say "post office" and not "mail office"?

The mail carrier? I have no idea. They just show up and put the mail in my mailbox and go on with their day. I don't usually even know when they've brought the mail because I'm still asleep or I can't hear them downstairs and the doorbell doesn't work. I have to go downstairs and check the mail myself.

Is actually greeting the mail carrier and treating them like an old friend when they come to your an American thing, or was it just something that was common in the 1950s? And do they really wear those silly outfits with the safari hats like I've seen in some Garfield comics. Garfield likes to attack the mail carrier whenever he arrives because why should dogs have all the fun?

Knowing your mailman is a long gone attribute in the US i think ? Leastwise while i delivered for several years .
Many years ago . But always was open to getting. to know customers , And saved a smile for all of them ,
And a wave if they looked like they might be responsive . My local person, if they are not overloaded with work that day might offer. A wave back to me if i acknowledged them . One year at Christmastime when first moving here left alittle bag of choco chip cookies that they carried off, Gave me a smile . Hard to know if you have your regular route person on any given day of the week it seems sometimes.
Sure wish it was like the earlier times when you actually knew delivery persons by name.

We don't have a mailman, as we don't have mail delivery.

Joe ,same one for thirty + years.

And he didn't get posted elsewhere?

Mate, dude, bud or Postle, depends on how I feel.

There is a person (a woman) who delivers our mail consistently. Never found out her name.

It’s either a mailman (person) or a postman (person), though “mailman/person” is much more common.

We either “mail” a letter or “post” a letter, “mail” being most common.

I’m sure, in the UK, “mail” is not called “post.” Though you always “post” your mail, or “put it in the post.”

I daren't ask the name of mine... he might go postal.

^ Has that term been adopted by UK people?

Man….an example of too much Yankee influence

I think so. No idea of the origin of the phrase though. Is it something to do with a movie?

Google Mail; Gmail, for short.

He’s a postie
He delivers the post
I posted a box to Nottingham yesterday
We got one in the post from Leeds.

He’s a nice guy but I don’t address (pun) people by name, so there’s no reason for me to know it. It’s been the same man for about four years. Maybe I’ll ask him next time I see him. We still get deliveries to the door, but we have to go to the post office to post.

@Kraftie I don't know why a possible excess of Yankee influence in the UK concerns you, however the origin of the phrase was an incident (probably in the 80s) that took place when a Post Office employee was angered by an incident at work, left, and returned with a gun, proceeding to kill as many people as he could before being overpowered. I'm surprised that googling the phrase doesn't produce this answer.