Mail carrier
A mail carrier, mailman, mailwoman, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, or letter carrier (in American English), sometimes colloquially known as a postie (in Australia,New Zealand,Scotland, and other parts of the United Kingdom), is an employee of a post office or postal service, who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses. The term "mail carrier" came to be used as a gender-neutral substitute for "mailman" soon after women began performing the job. In the Royal Mail, the official name changed from "letter carrier" to "postman" in 1883, and "postwoman" has also been used for many years.
United States
In the United States, the official label for a mail carrier is "letter carrier". There are three types of letter carriers: city letter carriers, who are represented by the National Association of Letter Carriers; Rural Letter Carrier, who are represented by the National Rural Letter Carriers' Association; and Highway Contract Route carriers, who are independent contractors. While union membership is voluntary, city carriers are organized near 70% nationally.
Postman (film)
Postman is a Chinese film made in 1995 and directed by He Jianjun. His second feature, Postman tells the story of a shy mailman played by Feng Yuanzheng who steals and reads the letters of people on his route. The film is considered part of China's sixth generation movement.
The director operated under a ban during Postman's production and only succeeded in screening the film abroad after smuggling a print out of the country and finishing the film overseas.
Plot
Xiao Dou (Feng Yuanzheng) is a shy and naive mailworker living in Beijing with his sister. When a coworker is fired for reading people's correspondences Xiao Dou takes over the same mail route. He soon finds himself indulging in the same curiosity, eventually developing an obsession. Xiao Dou chooses to spend time reading letters instead of socializing with friends or coworkers. As he becomes increasingly tied to the letters, he begins to intervene in the lives of those who write and receive the letters.
As Xiao Dou's amorality and detachment become more severe, his obsessions expand, as he engages in an incestuous relationship to his own sister. By the end of the film, Xiao Dou no longer considers the feelings of anyone else.
Postmen
Postmen is a reggae/hip hop band from the Netherlands; the original line-up consisted of Remon 'Anonymous Mis' Stotijn, Michael 'Rollarocka' Parkinson and Gus 'G-Boah' Bear.
The group was founded by The Anonymous Mis and G-Boah in 1993. They were influenced by Kool G Rap, Eric B & Rakim, Burning Spear and Bob Marley. On the road, Postmen play with a live band and have appeared on some the largest festivals in Europe.
Just before their debut LP Documents, Rollarocka joins the band and a string of hit singles followed. They enjoyed success in Europe, particularly in their home country of the Netherlands; their string of top 40-hits included "Cocktail", "Crisis", "U Wait" and a cover-version of Doe Maar's 1982 chart-topper "De Bom" (in collaboration with rapper Def Rhymz).
Postmen received regular radio-airplay (particularly during the summer season) although their second and third albums (Revival and Era) didn't reach former glories.
Postmen split up in 2005 because the three members had drifted apart. Anonymous Mis continued as Postman and released his solo-album Green in 2006. The first single Downhill features vocals from his award-winning rockstar-wife Anouk. They spent a year in Ohio with their three children to escape the pressures of fame, but eventually settled in Amsterdam. In May 2008 the couple announced their break-up.
Podcasts:
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- My Blues EP released:
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- World of Trance 9 released: 1999
- Futurescope F-001 released: 1994
Futurescope F-001
Released 1994- Intro
- 4°
- Nightflight On Wax
- Antabus
- Tales of Mystery
- End Of A Season
- Mystique
- Elysium
- Saturn Needs Water
- Urban Sea
- CZ 102
- CZ 101
- Triebegas
- Music Life X
- Riding House Pimps RMX
- Riding Illuminatus Acid
- Gloria
- Conclusion Elevator
- Sometimes
- Drift Away
- Union Jack
- Love Technique
- Riding Tom & Norman RMX
- Bad Dreams
- My Body
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Downhill (feat. Anouk)
by: PostmanHey hey hey
Oh Lord Oh Lord
Do you feel me baby Do you feel me baby
Oh oh oh
Aaah
Hip to the game get the name known my colors never seem to fit the rainbow
Just me Anonymous I aim slow got something underneath my raincoat
Bring a banger hang on to the beat let it go kid give 'em what they need
Make 'em sizzle with a likkle weed pass on another bag of wicked green
But it seems a lost case for everybody when I'm on stage
Off stage I'm even more brave got a whole fam ready they can all blaze
Make a choice boy pick a dude Gunmen we can all shoot you
That's what we do when we in the booth showing hoods what's really good too
Kid I sold too much makes your pops need two jobs
Don't you think it's too rough way I moved up in the game shit's too hot
I'm all about it never doubt it crown me still
We can get it done make 'em run little bit of fun going down these hills
Come on
Brother Do you understand where I'm coming from
Sister Do you understand where I'm coming from
Do you feel me baby Do you feel it baby
Get down the hill, do you understand where I'm coming from
If you can't stand the heat you can run though
Every time I meet another John Doe we can get it on just rumble
Eat your whole crew like chicken combos
We can set it straight mate we can celebrate I found the gateway
We can make a change and stay praised onto the road till its payday
We gon' toast better bread no smoke just a better head
Bet I'm back brother can you handle that we gon' steam where the damn kettle at
Stomp and deliver punch on the liver gunz get it quicker blow
Face it on the slave ships they never let a n#gga go
I know it's pitiful critical times hurt please God let the rhyme work get the mind dirt
My divine search will apply fly when I burn fibers
All about it never doubt it crown me still
We can get it done make 'em run little bit of fun going down these hills
Come on
Everything in life changin' heavy load had my soul drainin'
So my goal's not at all craving 'cause the road got us all flaming
So I keep walking on pavement for the better never stop dreaming
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