Joined: 5 Jan 2010 Age: 50 Gender: Female Posts: 11,896 Location: Lost on Earth, waddya think?
15 Jan 2023, 2:12 pm
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.
Joined: 1 Nov 2017 Gender: Female Posts: 68,612 Location: Chez Quis
16 Jan 2023, 9:15 am
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.
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Joined: 2 Sep 2013 Gender: Male Posts: 5,274 Location: Mid-Atlantic US
16 Jan 2023, 9:45 am
Radish wrote:
kraftiekortie wrote:
^ 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?
@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.