Soviet postman. Mail watch online. Astronauts postal communication

The work of postal workers in tsarist Russia was hard and joyless. The spirit of the military barracks regime breathed over the entire postal world. The orders of harsh soldiery were transferred here. Even the uniform of postmen for a long time looked like a soldier's uniform, even a cleaver hung from the postman's belt. This was the case in the 18th century, and little changed in the first half of the next century.

During the reign of Peter I, Catherine II, Paul I and in later times, the government more than once had to issue orders to protect postal workers from the tyranny of those in power. These orders were of little help. “What is a stationmaster?” Asks A.S. Pushkin in the story "The Stationmaster" is a real martyr of the fourteenth grade, protected by his rank only from beatings, and even then not always (I refer to the conscience of my readers) ... Isn't it real hard labor? Peace neither day nor night. "

Indeed, the little rank did not protect the stationmaster in any way. This is how NS describes in his work "Laughter and Grief" Leskov meeting the caretaker with an important person:

“And I suppose you ... do you use the fourteenth grade, canalya?
- I use it, your excellency. Slap in the face.
- Chin "don't hit me in the snout" have you?
- I have.
- So, don't rely on the law! Do not trust!

And slap after slap fell, they flew like hail, rain, torrent. The unfortunate caretaker had just got up when he fell back to the floor. " The poor caretaker was so accustomed to such treatment from important persons that he considered it normal. "From this, to tell the truth, it is not even offensive, but the next time the warrant officer comes running or a cornet, but also climbs to the snout, so that's very disgusting."

The station superintendent, who dared to contradict those in power, was expelled from service. Extract No. 20 from the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the postal department dated December 30, 1843 read: “Borisov, the superintendent of the Rubikhov post station (Pskov province), for impudent actions against the police officer, and generally for his restless nature, I ordered to be dismissed from the postal service, and, as originating from a taxable state, to be sent to the Provincial Government for conversion to a primitive state. " In post and telegraph offices there were only 8 free days a year. They worked for 293 days 12 hours a day and 64 for 8 hours. At the same time, in city councils, government chambers and other institutions, employees had 72 free days and worked 9 hours a day.

Employees in small positions received so much that they could only live from hand to mouth. Even the laborer then received more. In addition, the postal official had to have, if not a frock coat, then a jacket, which was heavy on his budget. Even higher posts of postal workers were paid significantly worse than other departments. The length of service of the pension was thirty-five years, and the pension was beggarly. In a memo to Alexander II, one of the dignitaries was forced to write the following: “The station superintendent received only 11 kopecks per day. An official of the same 14th class, who was put under arrest, was entitled to 12 kopecks. fodder money ". The prison provided more security than the post office.

Women who served in the post office were deprived of rights. Since 1872, there has been a law restricting their ability to marry. Even in later times, a woman who entered the post office or telegraph office had to sign such an undertaking: “I, the undersigned, hereby give this signature that the rule set out in section 2 of the January 9, 1909 instruction on the service of women in the postal and telegraph office, On the basis of which maidens and childless widows are recruited into the service, and only the wives of the officials of the said department can be married to the service, it was announced to me, and if I marry, I undertake to leave the service. "

A request to repeal such a law was submitted to the State Duma, but remained without consequences. It was even harder for the postmen who accompanied the mail on horseback. They moved eight miles an hour; for each trip was supposed to 20 kopecks. increase per day. For six extra hours on the way, there was no increase. Thus, for 30 hours of work, the same 20 kopecks fell to the penny earnings. increments. Clothes were worn out on the way. In addition, it was necessary to have iron health in order to sit on an open cart in autumn and spring in the pouring rain, sometimes for two days. “Tea costs 5 kopecks, bread - 4 kopecks a pound, 11 kopecks remain for lunch. It is difficult to taste porridge for these pitiful pennies ... Is it possible that the Main Directorate does not realize that it is impossible to feed itself for 20 kopecks during the day, "wrote the Post and Telegraph Bulletin in 1912.

In the aforementioned extract No. 20 from the order of the Commander over the postal department, there was the following message: “The Efremov office (Tula province), the postman Obolensky and the guard of the Moscow post office Samokhin, forwarding mail to Serpukhov ... , and on the road they let the two coachmen with the horses go back, then following with the mail to Serpukhov on three carts. For which the postman Obolensky was punished at the meeting of the postman's team with rods, and the guard Samokhin (who comes from the officers' children) was kept under arrest for three days on bread and water with a strict suggestion that in the future he would be subjected to greater punishment for such an act. Under such conditions, the postman was obliged, as the text of the road, which remained unchanged until the February Revolution, says, “to carry mail through all cities and stations day and night with all haste, not hesitating anywhere in vain for a single minute, not sparing his belly to the last drop of blood , and the indicated in the consignment notes should be kept intact under fear for the contrary to that strictly according to the law of collection ”.

At the end of the last century, the working day of the postman who delivered the mail was sixteen hours. The postman traveled 25, or even 30 miles per day. In big cities, he carried a load several times a day on his own shoulders, the total weight of which reached several poods. According to official figures, 75% of postal and telegraph officials earned less than diggers or laborers. It is not surprising that postal workers fought as best they could with the tsarist government. In 1905, many of them took part in the All-Russian political strike. During the days of the Great October Revolution, communications workers were among its active fighters. In the early days of Soviet power, a number of small postal and telegraph officials were promoted to leading positions.

The work of postal workers in the country of the Soviets became different. To the aid of communications workers, machines come to replace heavy manual labor. But even today postmen enter our entrances, whose work is now valued no less than the work of people of other professions. And postmen are awarded orders and medals, they are awarded high ranks, as it was during the Soviet era. The Hero of Socialist Labor was Anuza Davletovna Sharifullina, the brigadier of the post office of the Ufa post office, who had worked impeccably in her post for twenty-two years, previously awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. Sharifullina has trained almost 100 people in her profession. She is a deputy of the district council.

The Order of Lenin was awarded to Elena Andreevna Bespalova, who carried the postman's bag through her area thirty years ago. Now she is a letter sorter at the Moscow Post Office. If every day thousands of addressees receive their correspondence on time, there is a particle and its work in this. Drummer of the ninth five-year plan, the best master of communications by profession, as stated in her service record, she was a delegate to the XXV Congress of the CPSU. ... On the steep bank of the Dnieper, from house to house in the village of Borodaevka, is the postman Olga Shvidka. There are 600 yards in the village, and in the very center, in the same building as the village council, there is a post office.

Each postman has his own area: 200 yards. In the rain and in the slush and in the cold the postmen work, and for many years there has not been a case that at least one letter remained undelivered by the closing of the post office. All signalmen are held in high esteem by the villagers, and in all houses they are greeted as close people. In their bags they have envelopes and stamps, there are even collectible ones for local philatelists. You can send a letter and a telegram with postmen directly from home.

Postman's bag. How varied its content is sometimes! “So they chatted among themselves in the postman's bag of summons and letters; and meanwhile he ran through the streets and indifferently carried joy and sorrow, laughter and sorrow, love and anger, friendship and hatred, truth and lies, important news and stupid, empty phrases to their homes. " This is what the outstanding Russian teacher KD Ushinsky wrote in his story "The Postman's Bag". But not all postmen are indifferent. This is how Anna Iosifovna Petrovicheva (“Annushka”, as residents of three villages love her call her), who began her difficult journey as a girl, tells about herself ... For more than 35 years she has been carrying a bag with newspapers, letters, parcels: “Here is Svaino - in him I live all my life ... I know all the people in the village, up to the tenth generation, and I also know how they call cows and puppies. It was more difficult at first with Khoroshevka - there are only Andreevs and Timofeevs. And there are no numbers on the houses - I was confused. Now I’ll say something to the return address to whom the letter is. I know from where, who and how often writes. And who is interested in what, what newspapers and magazines reads - wake up at night, I will tell. Maria Gavrilovna is from Khoroshevka, she was 100 years old recently - and the next year she subscribed to the regional newspaper For Communism, and even newspapers ... And my third village, NovoNikolaevskoe, can be seen in the distance across the field ... And so every single day in circles and rings: Svaino - Nikolaikha - Khoroshevka - Svaino. How many kilometers are there? If, I think, to unwind all these rings, it would be enough to the moon. And all on foot. "

Astronauts postal communication

It is justly said: "Honor and glory to the postmen!" Postmen do their job not only on earth: they also appeared in space. From the Soyuz-5 spacecraft to the Soyuz-4 spacecraft, the pilots-cosmonauts E. V. Khrunov and A. S. Eliseev transferred letters and newspapers for the pilot-cosmonaut V. A. Shatalov. At a meeting with the crews of the starships, the head of the Main Post Office of the USSR Ministry of Communications, O. K. Makarov, handed over to E. V. Khrunov, A. S. Eliseev, V. A. Shatalov and B. V. Volynov postmen's certificates and badges. The astronauts asked that special bags be made for the convenience of sending mail in space on the next flights.

When the stay in space began to be measured in months (the flight of the first main expedition to the Salyut-6 orbital station, consisting of cosmonauts Yu. V. Romanenko and GM Grechko, lasted 90 days), postal communications began to develop successfully. Twice during this flight, space mail was transmitted to the station via the visiting expedition, and regular mail circulation was opened on the Earth-Space and Space-Earth routes. The cosmonauts received not only registered and ordinary letters from their families, comrades-cosmonauts and friends, but numerous official correspondence, newspapers and parcels.

G.M. Grechko became the head of the first space post office. He was given official credentials from the USSR Ministry of Communications and a special cancellation stamp. The first letter sent from the vastness of the Universe was addressed to Leningrad, to the AS Popov Museum of Communications. After the landing of Soyuz-28, the postmark was sent to Moscow, where it was canceled at the Main Post Office. Correspondence brought to Earth by the ship was stamped with the certification “Space mail. Delivered by the Soyuz spacecraft. The letters were processed at the Baikonur cosmodrome and delivered to the addressees. The first cosmonaut of Czechoslovakia V. Remek delivered a Czechoslovak special stamp on board the station.

On October 9, all over the world celebrate International Post Day. Now, in the era of the Internet, paper messages have practically been replaced by electronic ones, but it is still impossible to imagine life without mail. Every day, millions of people receive letters, postcards and parcels from different parts of the world to each friend. the site tells how the postal service was born and developed in Russia.

From coachmen to postmasters

The postal business began to emerge in Russia as early as the X century. True, then the messages and dispatches were sent mainly by princes. Ordinary people had to unquestioningly provide the princely messengers with horses and food: such a duty was called "carriage." Later, in the XIII century, the first postal stations appeared - the pits - and the postal service was transformed into the Yamskaya one. Horses also walked between the stations, provided by the local population. The peasants themselves carried the messengers on horseback. The distance between the pits was up to 100 kilometers. Thus, the peasant could "retire" from household chores for several days. Moreover, such work was not paid. The coachmen began to receive remuneration for their work only under Ivan the Terrible.

The postal service in its classical sense arose in the 17th century, while the Yamskoye business continued to exist in parallel with it. Coachmen delivered urgent messages to a specific place, and postmen delivered many letters at once, strictly at a certain time.

Under Peter I, the Yamskaya and the regular mail merged into one organization, which was managed by the postmaster general. The highest organs were post offices, and at the bottom of the hierarchical ladder were post stations.

Boxes are worth their weight in gold

The intracity mail appeared in Russia in 1833: it worked in St. Petersburg. Residents of the capital could take their letters to one of 45 reception points. Three times a day, the letters were taken to the post office, where the messages were sorted, and the postmen delivered them to the addressees. In the middle of the 19th century, with the advent of stamps that had to be glued to the envelope, mailboxes were placed in the cities, and people no longer had to wait long for their turn at the letter receiving points.

The coachman's work was hard work. Photo: Public Domain

The first boxes were made of planks, lined with iron and painted in dark blue. The novelty quickly became a target for thieves, and one by one the boxes disappeared from the city streets. Then they began to be made of cast iron: the weight of one such structure was under 40 kilograms, and it was rather difficult to remove its walls.

By 1896, there were more than 15 thousand mailboxes in Russia.

The hard work of the postman

The postman in Russia could be recognized from afar on the street by his uniform, similar to a soldier's uniform. Later, the wearing of the uniform was abolished, and the uniforms were replaced by frock coats, which the postmen had to acquire from their own pockets.

At the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, the postman's working day lasted as long as 16 hours - from early morning until nightfall. During this time, a postal officer could walk about 30 kilometers with a bag weighing tens of kilograms. For this reason, only men carried mail, and women, as a rule, worked in the office of the department. Only unmarried, childless and widows were hired. Upon admission to the post office, each woman signed a pledge that she would leave the service if she decided to start a family. It was believed that the husband and children would serve as a distraction for the employees and interfere with the work process.

The postman could be recognized from afar - by his form. Photo: Museum of Printing and Publishing

Despite the difficult working conditions, the postman's work was paid very modestly. So, in the early 1900s, the average salary of a postal employee was 20 rubles a month. At the same time, a liter of sour cream cost about 80 kopecks, and a kilogram of chocolates - 3 rubles. The postmen who transported mail on horseback received a little more: for one such trip they were entitled to an increase of 20 kopecks per day. In 1912, a note was published in the Post and Telegraph Bulletin that read: “Tea costs 5 kopecks, bread - 4 kopecks a pound, 11 kopecks remain for lunch. It is difficult to taste porridge for these pitiful pennies ... Is the Main Directorate really not aware that it is impossible to feed yourself for 20 kopecks during the day? "

Nowadays the work of the postman is valued much more than in the old days, and the working conditions have become easier. Letters from all over the country are sorted out in automated sorting centers (ASC): about 3 million messages pass through the conveyor per day. The size and weight of the letter is determined by the machines, they also apply the cancellation stamps. After processing, the letters are sent to one of the 42 thousand post offices. From there they are already delivered by the postman, and every day people all over the country receive the letters they have been waiting for!

Mail in all post-Soviet countries is some kind of hellish p ... c. Even entering the city branch, you can be sure that you will find yourself in the realm of soviet squalor, tired and angry workers, dressed in sweaters that have seen more than one season and a branch of a TV shop with goods from the 90s. What can we say about rural post offices... There is generally a full pipe.

Sometimes I even get the feeling that the post office is something like a kind of detention center, where people are sent to work who have screwed up in front of someone. The 21st century is in the yard, cars are already running on electricity, you can use the phone not only to make calls, but also to shoot entire films, and here is still the era of Perestroika.

To be honest, I thought that at least in Belarus, unlike in Russia and Ukraine, post offices became modern and did not get stuck in the last century. Wrong. Having entered the post office in one of the villages of the Vitebsk region, I realized that you can roll your lip back, there is an even more unrestrained scoop here than in the Russian outback ...

1. Post office for a village in Belarus is more than just a post office box and newspapers. It is also a news agency where people exchange latest news and rumors, and the bank branch in which they receive pensions with benefits, pay utilities and other payments, and a mini-supermarket, and an advertising agency where ads are placed.

2. Mailbox at the entrance to the department is almost the only thing that looks more or less modern ...

3. Upon entering the building, you instantly find yourself in such a familiar environment. It's amazing how similar post offices are all over the former USSR... The same door upholstered in tin, the same spring-loaded door closer, the same chair, the only function of which is to prevent the door closer from working.

4. Surprisingly, this branch accepts plastic cards of all payment systems, including the national Belarusian one. As you know, the door is the most important advertising space in such places, so the most important advertisement hangs here. Nobody should forget that on October 11 Lukashenka is elected for another presidential term.

5. Now, attention! You can buy WiFi access cards at this rural post office.
Ask why is it needed in the village? Because it has an outdoor WiFi network! In the village! In a remote province!

6. Concerning the public wiFi networks in the village - it's not a joke. Just evaluate the coverage map of the All-Belarusian network. Sure, wireless Internet there are still not in all villages, but in very many.

7. You know, if they showed me this photo, without telling where it was taken, I would have guessed exactly in one of three attempts that it was taken in the mail. And yes, there is stove (!!!) heating here! Stove, Karl! And what a vintage oven!

8. The kingdom of the postman: SkyShop goods, cards "Happy Birthday" and "I invite you to a wedding", magazines "Your doctor", "Domashniy ochag", "Babushka", "Grandfather", "Auntie" and further on the list and plastic flowers for the cemetery.

Pay attention to the computer: in a Windows environment, a program with a DOS interface is loaded on it !!!

9. At the counter, near the postman, is another most expensive advertising space. Here is a repeated reminder so that they do not forget to elect Lukashenka as president of the republic on October 11.

10. What is mail for? How for what! For example, selling cigarettes ...

11. There are lovely pictures on the walls of the post office. Remember, yes, the bug leads to a fire and do not heat the mastic over an open fire.

12. Notice board. You won't be left without a radio! Public WiFi and wired radio with radio stuck in the wall! It's 9G! Welcome to the XXI century!

13. In terms of attendance, post offices in villages are definitely in the TOP, judging by the number of people who came to the post office in the 10 minutes I spent buying stamps and signing postcards. That is, they are needed, in demand. And they look like the wildest anachronism. So what happens to the mail? Why didn’t it go beyond the XX-XXI century neither in Russia, nor in Ukraine, nor in Belarus, drowning in the swamp of the 90s?

Due to the civil war, which led to famine and devastation, the establishment of the post office in the early years of Soviet power was difficult. The postal and telegraph administration in the BSSR was repeatedly transformed and renamed within four years.

In 1918 the postal and telegraph business was under the jurisdiction of the Smolensk postal and telegraph district.

On January 6, 1919, the postal and telegraph administration was transformed into the People's Commissariat of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones of the BSSR.

On February 4, 1919, the People's Commissariat of Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones of the BSSR was renamed the Western Regional Postal and Telegraph Administration.

On March 1, 1919, the postal and telegraph administration was renamed into the People's Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs of Lithuania and Belarus (Litbel).

On July 11, 1920, the Mingubrevkom arrived in the liberated Minsk, and a department was created people's connection Mingubrevkoma.

On August 1, 1920, the people's communications department was reorganized into the people's communications department of the Voenrevkom of the BSSR.

In October 1920, the People's Communications Department of the Voenrevkom was transformed into the Commissariat of People's Communications of the Voenrevkom of the BSSR.

On September 7, 1922, the People's Commissariat of the BSSR was abolished, and its functions were transferred to the newly formed Communications Department of the Western District.

To organize postal services in cities and villages, on May 2, 1918, VI Lenin signed a Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars "On the establishment of three thousand postal and telegraph institutions with savings banks at them."

In 1918, VN Podbelsky was appointed to the post of People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs, the organizer of socialist communications in the early years of Soviet power. Immediately after the civil war, envelopes, stamps, postcards and paper were sent to the village with the help of mobile communication offices by the People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs. In 1921-1922. in many villages, the first communication agencies began to be created at the reading rooms.

On January 1, 1919, V.I.Lenin signed a decree of the Soviet government on the free mailing of mail weighing up to 15 grams.

On January 1, 1919, postal businesses began accepting subscriptions to newspapers and magazines and delivering them to subscribers.

In 1920, in Rogachev, Minsk province, a revaluation of the stamps of tsarist Russia was carried out by overprinting the figures of the new denomination with a hand stamp.

In 1921, the first Soviet postage stamp was issued, depicting a worker trampling on a dragon symbolizing capitalism.

In 1922, aircraft began to move along the Moscow-Keningsberg line. A significant part of this route passed over the territory of the BSSR. In 1935, the Minsk-Moscow air line was opened for regular mail transportation. In 1932, the first postal airline Minsk - Glusk - Parichi - Mozyr began operating in the republic on a U2 plane. In 1940, airfields were built in Pinsk, Vileika and Baranovichi, new postal airlines were opened: Minsk - Baranovichi - Pinsk - Brest - Minsk and Minsk - Vileika - Bialystok - Minsk.

In 1924, a mobile ring post was organized in the village. On a horse harnessed to a cart, the postman traveled around a dozen villages and villages located far from the permanent post office.

In 1925, by a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, the post of rural letter carriers was introduced.

At the end of 1925, there were 603 postal and telegraph enterprises in the BSSR.

In 1929, horses were replaced by bicycles, motorcycles and automobiles. At the end of the 30s, an independent transport division was formed at the Minsk post office and the construction of a garage for cars on Podlesnaya Street began. This was the beginning of the formation of the Transport Office of the Minsk Regional Office of the NK Communications - later the RUE Avtobaza Belpochty. The rolling stock of the Transport Office consisted of captured equipment and vehicles transferred into operation from military units: GAZ-AA, GAZ-AAA, ZIS-5, Ford-6, as well as "Wilis" and "Opel". For the delivery of mail, special mail machines AMO-f-15 and GAZ-55 were also used.

In 1935 the Minsk post and telegraph office was divided into two independent enterprises: the Minsk post office and the Minsk telegraph.

In 1939, after the annexation of Western Belarus, the postal service changed dramatically, postal operations increased significantly due to the opened new postal routes. New regions were formed: Brest, Baranovichi, Pinsk, Belostok and Vileika. At the same time, regional communications departments were created, all post offices were reorganized. In Bialystok, Baranovichi, Brest, Molodechno, Grodno and Lida departments for the transportation of mail by rail have been opened.

By the end of 1940, 523 communications enterprises operated in the new regions, including 312 communications agencies, 106 communications offices and 105 post offices.

Railroad lines of mail cars from Minsk, Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev were extended to all regional centers and large stations in Western Belarus.

On the eve of the Great Patriotic War the population of the republic was served by about 2300 post offices, post offices and postal agencies.

Who's knocking on my door
With a thick shoulder bag
With the number 5 on a copper plaque,
In a blue uniform cap?
It is he,
It is he,
Leningrad postman.

Him
Many
Letters
In a bag on the side
From Tashkent,
Taganrog,
From Tambov
And Baku.

At seven o'clock he started the business,
At ten, the bag lost weight,
And by twelve o'clock
I smashed everything to addresses.

2

Custom made from Rostov
For Comrade Zhitkov!
Custom for Zhitkov?
Sorry, there is no such thing!
Where is this citizen?
I flew to Berlin yesterday.

3

Zhitkov abroad
Rushes through the air
The ground turns green below.
And after Zhitkov
In the mail car
The registered letter is being carried.
Shelf packages
Are laid out with sense
Disassembly is underway on the road
And two postmen
On the carriage benches
Swing all night long.

Card
To Dubrovka,
Package
To Pokrovka,
Newspaper
To the Klin station.
Letter
In Bologoye.
But customized
Will go abroad - to Berlin.

4

There is a Berlin postman
The last mail is loaded.
He is dressed so dandy:
Peaked cap with red piping.
On a navy blazer
Azure buttonholes.
He walks and holds in his hand
A letter from abroad.

All around the passers-by are in a hurry.
Cars rustle with tires
One another is faster
Along the Linden Alley.
The postman leads to the door
Bow to the old Swiss.
Letter to Herr Zhitkov
From number six!
Yesterday at eleven o'clock
Zhitkov left for England!

5

Letter
Itself
Won't go anywhere
But put it in the box
It will run
Will fly by
Will float
Thousands of miles on the way.

It's not hard to write
See the light:
Him
No ticket needed.
For copper money
Will travel the world
Sealed
Passenger.
On the way
It
Doesn't drink or eat
And only one
He speaks:
Urgent.
England.
London.
West,
14, Bobkin Street.

6

Runs throwing a load
Bus behind the bus.
Rocking on the roof
Posters and posters.
The ladder conductor yells:
End of the route! Bobkin Street!
Down Bobkin Street, Down Bobkin Street
Mr. Smith is walking fast
In a postage blue cap
And he himself is like a chip.

Goes to the fourteenth house,
Knocks with a hanging hammer
And he says sternly:
For Mr. Zhitkov.
The doorman looks out from under his glasses
Name and surname
And he says: - Boris Zhitkov
Went to Brazil!

7

Steamer
Will move away
In two minutes.
Suitcases people
I occupied all the cabins.
But into one of the cabins
They are not carrying suitcases.
This is what will go there:
Postman and mail.

8

Under the palm trees of Brazil
I'm tired of the heat
Don Basilio is walking
Brazilian postman.
In his hand he holds the strange
Crumpled letter.
On the stamp - foreign
Postage stamp.
And the inscription above the surname
That the addressee
Left Brazil
Back to Leningrad.

9

Who's knocking on my door
With a thick shoulder bag
With the number 5 on a copper plaque,
In a blue uniform cap?
It is he,
It is he,
Leningrad postman.
He holds out again
Custom-made for Zhitkov.
For Zhitkov?
Hey Boris,
Receive and sign!

10

My neighbor jumped out of bed:
That's a miracle indeed!
Look, the letter is behind me
The globe flew around the earth.
Raced across the sea in pursuit
It rushed to the Amazon.
They drove him after me
Trains and ships.
Along the seas and mountain slopes
It has come to me.
Honor and glory to the postmen,
Tired and dusty.
Glory to honest postmen
With a thick shoulder bag!