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Famous Mail Carriers & Postal Workers
We often see public figures appearing on television shows talking about what they did before they became an actor, singer, politician, etc. We thought it would be fun to explore who may have once been responsible for delivering the mail. You may find many of the names quite surprising…Stellar Mail Carriers…
Charles Bukowski, author and poet – who penned of the 1971 novel “Post Office”
Steve Carell, actor in films such as “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Evan Almighty,” and “The Forty Year Old Virgin”
Walt Disney was a substitute mail carrier in Chicago, IL
Ace Frehely, the original guitarist for the rock n’ roll band KISS
Rock Hudson worked as a letter carrier in Winnetka, IL
John Prine, Grammy winning folk singer
The Presidential Treatment…
Abraham Lincoln was the postmaster in New Salem, IL
William McKinley was an assistant postmaster in Poland, OH
Harry S. Truman was the postmaster in Grandview, MO
More Power Postmasters…
William Faulkner, famed novelist who served as postmaster in University, MS
Benjamin Franklin, our famed Founding Father was also our first Postmaster General.
Will Hays, President of the Motion Picture Producers & Distributors of America served as Postmaster General
Conrad Hilton, the businessman and hotel magnate was postmaster in San Antonio, NM
Harry Hooper, this baseball Hall-of-Famer played the position of postmaster in Capitola, CA after his ball playing career ended
Bill Nye, the distinguished journalist and humorist was the postmaster of Laramie, WY when he founded the newspaper the Laramie Boomerang in 1881
Adlai E. Stevenson, who was the Assistant Postmaster General during President Grover Cleveland’s first
administration and Vice President of the US during Cleveland’s second administration (1893-1897)
Celebrity Clerks & Others…
Bing Crosby, before “White Christmas,” he likely handled many holiday cards as a clerk in Spokane, WA
Samuel L. Gravely, the first African-American admiral was a railway mail clerk after returning from his first stint as an ensign with the Navy; he later returned to that branch of the armed forces for 31-year career as a highly decorated officer
Sherman Hemsley, prior to “movin’ on up,” the actor worked as a clerk in Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY
Charles Lindbergh, the famed aviator winged it as contract airmail pilot
Knute Rockne, was a clerk in Chicago, IL before his legendary football coaching career
Noah Webster, the noted lexicographer was a special agent for the USPS
Foreign Service…
Olivier Besancenot, a candidate in the 2002 and 2007 French presidential elections has worked as a postal carrier since 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, a suburb of Paris (taking a break in 1999 and 2002 to serve as a parliamentary attaché)
Alan Johnson, the former UK Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer worked at the post office in his youth
Bon Scott, the late lead singer of rock n’ roll’s AC/DC was once a “postie” in Australia
Allan Smethurst, the English singer who was known as “The Singing Postman,” who started out humming tunes on his daily postal rounds for 12 years
Famous though Fictional…
Cliff Clavin, mailman and bar patron (played by John Ratzenberger) on the TV sitcom, “Cheers”
Newman, mailman and Jerry’s nemesis (played by Wayne Knight) on the TV sitcom, “Seinfeld”
Pat Clifton, the main character of the stop-motion animated children’s TV series, Postman Pat
Mister McFeely, the postman on Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, played by David Newell
Reba the Mail Lady, the children’s TV series Pee-Wee’s Playhouse played by S. Epatha Merkerson (perhaps best known for her work on TV’s Law and Order)
Next time you buy stamps at your local Post Office or see your mail carrier delivering letters and parcels along your route, you just may be having a brush with greatness. You never know!
