Postman Pat Has Been Given His Marching Orders

Postman Pat and his ilk have been given their marching orders.

The Royal Mail is advertising for ‘postpersons’ to deliver the nation’s letters and parcels.

The company is using the gender-neutral term to make the point that the position is not just open to first-class males.

Its new job ad states: ‘We are reinventing Royal Mail for the future and now is a perfect time to join us on that journey.’

The term ‘postman’ dates back to 1883, when the job was a strictly male-only affair.

Ironically, that term replaced the more gender sounding title of ‘letter carrier.’

The women’s association with the UK’s postal service dates back to 1870, but at that time, most women worked as telegraphists.

They were frequently kept apart from their male coworkers, and their working circumstances were not as advanced as they are today.

In 1876, the service introduced a marriage bar, which prohibited the employment of married women in any role other than that of sub postmistress.

While female delivery workers were not unheard of in Britain at the start of the twentieth century, during the First and Second World Wars, when millions of men were serving on the front lines, they were much more common.

In 1940, existing postmen were even encouraged to bring their ‘wives, sweethearts, sisters and lady friends’ to help with the Christmas mail delivery.

Applicants for the current vacancies are promised a full range of benefits, including an hourly rate of £13.60, paid overtime, a uniform, a competitive pension and an ‘excellent’ family package including maternity and paternity leave.

But perhaps the most significant perk, given the sky-high cost of postage, is ‘free stamps at Christmas.’

The term ‘postman’ has always been used regardless of sex, but perhaps it should be ‘postman’ and ‘postwoman’. I’m an oldie, so I’ll probably always say ‘postman’ because it’s what I’m used to, and as they say, ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.’

Furthermore, the ongoing efforts to transform our society bear similarities to the events in Germany, and we are systematically destroying the UK and all that it stands for.

All these woke people need to give it a rest – even God had a day off!

The world has seriously become evil. Honestly, it doesn’t matter what a person considers themselves to be, because in a thousand years when we’re all dead, if we were to be dug up, they’re not going to say, ‘oh yes, this one indentified as such and such’, they will just say this one was male and the other one was female, they won’t care what you thought you were.

I sincerely feel terrible for the kids born into this absurdity, and the mental health continues – our country is done.

You are born, and you could call yourself a unicorn if you wanted to, but our genetics state otherwise.

Honestly, who facilitates these fools into positions where they can make such determinations? A postman can be male or female – midwives can be male or female. These people just have too much time on their hands. I would simply prefer that they offer a service where they deliver letters and parcels on time.

Postman Pat doesn’t offend anyone, so let it be and move on. Change is not necessary, and just because some people prefer to be genderless, it doesn’t mean we all have to be.

There are woMEN that are MANagers, and crikey, they are feMALE, whatever next. To be fair, I like being a woman in a world with real men.