As I passed out through the courtyard I saw postmen seated on the boxes of carts, with no horses before them.
But, as unconcerned as tramps plying contraband between South America and Mexico, His Majesty's postmen were delivering His Majesty's mail, with never a thought of the play of human emotions lying behind the sealed lips of an envelope.
We letter-carriers and postmen have great opportunities to know the characters and dispositions of gentlemen, from their servants, connexions, and correspondents.
Such posts would necessitate more frequent deliveries in provincial towns--the postmen to be paid accordingly as fully, and not as now, only partially, employed.
Their army of postmenand employés of the Post Office were a very great factor indeed in keeping steady a State like their own.
In this way, and as being the bearers of welcome letters, they were no doubt as gladly received at the doors of our forefathers as are the postmen at our own doors to-day.
In our own times the number of postmenserving these large towns may be counted by the hundreds, or, I might almost say, thousands.
Half an hour after this closing eleven postmen started to scour the town, collecting on their way letters and newspapers.
Each man carried a locked leather wallet, into which, through an opening, letters and other articles were placed, the postmen receiving a fee of a penny on every letter, and a halfpenny on every newspaper.
The leaflet is remarkable for this, that it is headed by a picture of postmen rushing through the streets delivering letters on roller skates.
Thus the same number of postmen covering but a tithe of the present distances could make deliveries without time schedules at intervals of a few minutes with a handful instead of a bagful of letters.
On the Continent, and especially in Germany, town and country postmen collect and deliver parcels and letters with the aid of the petrol-driven tricycle, and thereby save much time, while improving the service.
If postmen were confounded, And postage stamps impounded, Throughout the whole of Britain, What peace would be achieved!
The burdened postmen moan their fate, This Festival they reprobate; And often think they'd like to flay Saint Valentine!
Then came the chorus, like the pealing of great bells, and the policeman and the postmen began to join in, and people in their nightdresses and pyjamas came running out of their front doors, singing at the tops of their voices.
There were also two dustmen with a cart clearing up rubbish and bits of newspaper, and a water-man watering the asphalt, and some postmen outside the Post Office loading a mail-van.
Unless the Paris postmen are more patient than those of Madrid (who were on strike a few weeks since), their temper must be ruffled by the transformations now going on in the names of streets.
By way of compensation for the loss of that chance the postmen demanded that the annual increment be increased beyond $0.
It is not surprising, therefore, that at the recent election my agents informed me that 46 postmenvoted solid against me.
In the country, the auxiliary postmen received from 8 cents to 10 cents an hour.
We could have got better postmen [in London], if we had had a free hand.
Mr. Joyce replied: "Yes, it certainly does seem so; but for the position of inspector or assistant inspector of postmen there is no doubt that qualifications are required which are not ordinarily to be found in postmen.
The postmen had asked that the Christmas boxes [contributions from the public] be abolished, $26 a year being added to the wages as a compromise.
The only concession that Mr. Hill was willing to recommend was, that in the larger towns the time required for postmenand telegraphists to rise from the minimum scale of pay to the maximum be reduced from 13 years to 6 years.
He said that previous to 1882 all the revisions of the wages of the postmen had been made on the basis of demand and supply; but that the Fawcett revision had departed from that policy.
The London auxiliary postmen received from 12 cents to 18 cents an hour; they were mainly small tradesmen, shop assistants, and private watchmen.
Under-payment has always been a great incentive to dishonesty, and in 1848 we have Punch's assurance that the postmen were the worst paid of all Government employees.
The nation that prisoners so handsomely pays The wages of postmen will probably raise, And doubtless provide on a grand scale for all The children and wives of our soldiers who fall.
Now, in 1884, thirteen postmen are the necessary delivering force for the town.
In 1869 the town had grown to such dimensions that the office was raised to the rank of a head-office, and three postmen were required for delivery.
The postmen arranged the correspondence for distribution in the early morning, then they partook of breakfast, and set out upon their rounds about 9 A.
Handwriting now of every sort the connoisseur may meet; Though a running hand, I think, does most give postmen running feet.
I can't think how postmen escape catching colds when they have such constant walking in all sorts of weather.
A dozen stalwart postmen leaped from their meals to rush at the intruder.
I handed this letter to the Khalifa, who gave it to some postmen who were going to Osman Digna with instructions to send it to Suakin.
There is no system of postal communication for private persons, though sometimes the camel-postmen convey letters secretly.
There are even, though I hate to dwell upon it, postmen whom I do not trust.
And now I write it in a white man's book that thepostmen loitered.
These white postmen know too much; they can count more than ten.
And I will agree that there are, even on the trails of the wilderness, postmen and postmen.
And if they'd give me my way, I'd prosecute them postmen for bringing such ill luck to a body's door.
Those poor, half-starved postmen must have helped themselves to it.
The railway men and telegraphers refused to transmit their despatches, the postmen would not handle their mail.
The Postmen would not deliver or accept mail at Smolny.
Even the postmen and shopgirls, severe though their labors, would not have matters altered.
Not everyone is possessed of the postmen assigned in Midrashim to King Solomon, who pressed demons into his service, and forced them to carry his letters wheresoever he willed.
Among the most regular and punctual of Jewish postmen may be mentioned the bearers of begging letters and begging books.
They have inflicted upon postmen and letter-sorters an amount of extra labour that is almost incredible.
Belgium possesses a rural postal system as extensive and penetrating as that just described, but, although food and rent are cheaper there than in France, the average pay of Belgian rural postmen is £30 a year, just 2 francs a day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
