Employee of the post office or postal service, who delivers mail to residences and businesses

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Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.

Illustration of a messenger boy with his bicycle.

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Letter carriers

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Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, with a whip in one hand and a letter in the other, mounted on an ass with a human head. Etching with engraving, 1745.

Illustration of a messenger boy with his bicycle.