#post office
Post Office in Buckman, New Mexico along the Denver and Rio Grande “Chili Line” Railroad and home to the only full time resident
Date: 1920?
Negative Number: 042894
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Some model sheets & keyframes for a concept I did a few years ago called “Postal Heroes.” These designs were fun since I met someone on Discord who used to be a postal worker and got their feedback on the designs to make sure the outfits & story beats were accurate
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Thewebsite feedback form on the Post Office website lacks the title Mx, even though Mx is available on all other Post Office and Royal Mail website forms.
Use the feedback form itself, feel free to leave the title field optional, and just ask them with a sentence or two to add the gender-neutral title Mx. Make sure to give them the URL of the form itself, so they know which one you’re talking about! https://www.postoffice.co.uk/technical-issues-website
Here’s what I’m writing:
This form (https://www.postoffice.co.uk/technical-issues-website) has a title field, and the title Mx, which is available on title fields throughout the Post Office and Royal Mail websites, is missing. As a nonbinary person the titles Mr and Ms/Miss/Mrs are inappropriate for me. As Mx is the standard gender-neutral title on Post Office and Royal Mail websites, could you please add it to the title list on this form? See also https://mxactivist.tumblr.com/mxevidence
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digital painting of the post office in Deerfield Massachusetts 01373
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
First Mailwoman in Minneapolis
In January, 1945, 25-year-old Evelyn Scheldrup was hired as the first female mail carrier in Minneapolis. Hired as a substitute to fill war-time letter carrier shortages, Evelyn lugged the 50-pound mail bag on various routes through the coldest and snowiest months of the year. She dressed in her own clothes–slacks, sweater, and a jacket or fur coat with a mailman’s hat, depending on the weather–and frequently came home soaked from snow. She was the only woman hired by postmaster John R. Coan during the manpower shortage that year. After suffering a serious knee injury from a slip on the ice, she was reassigned inside the post office as a clerk that spring.
Following WWII, cities didn’t start seeing many female letter carriers again until the early 1960s when president John F. Kennedy ordered federal appointments and promotions be made without regard to sex. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson amended the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination in hiring in the workplace at large. The number of women letter carriers in cities nationwide jumped from 104 in 1960 to 3,500 in 1968. In 2007, women carriers represented about 40% of the workforce.
Read more about women mail carriers on the USPS website.
Photos of Evelyn Scheldrup from the Minneapolis Newspaper Photograph Collection in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
North Side Post Office, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1905. Now home to the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.
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The interviewer asks him, “Are you allergic to anything?”
He replies, “Yes, caffeine. I can’t drink coffee.”
“Ok, Have you ever been in the military service?”
“Yes,” he says, “I was in Iraq for one tour.”
The interviewer says, “That will give you 5 extra points toward employment." Then he asks, "Are you disabled in any way?”
The guy says, “Yes. A bomb exploded near me and I lost both my testicles.”
The interviewer grimaces and then says, “Okay. You’ve got enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. You can start tomorrow at 10:00 am, and plan on starting at 10:00 am every day.”
The guy is puzzled and asks, “If the work hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm, why don’t you want me here until 10:00 am?”
“This is a government job”, the interviewer says. “For the first two hours, we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls. No point in you coming in for that.”
also there’s the fact that the US military QUITE LITERALLY loses billions every year.. like not being able to account for billions of their funding.
