Zusteller is the general name for the occupation of the specialist for courier, express and postal service achievements or the Zusteller for the letter and group feed of the German post office. Further designations are letter and Paketzusteller, package messenger, postman or also postman.

Demarcation

In former times this was usually a civil servant of the (in Germany thus the Federal Post Office), today is mostly with a logistics and/or a post office enterprise employed it.

Zusteller can be used beyond that as money postmen and special messengers.

Beside these Zustellern there are also still the Zeitungszusteller of the printed media. Since loosening the postal monopoly strengthen the newspaper publishers try to use this infrastructure for own selling ways to the mailing in their circulation area.

Tasks

Zusteller must be so that the mails can reach punctually the receiver. Zusteller must in addition "weatherproof" to also be, since they always work on fresh air. All the same whether it rains, snows or the sun shines - the Zusteller put your ways back always in such a way, as these by the post office enterprises were specified.

In rural ranges the Zusteller, beside the normal feed, transfer "MoPS" - a function (mobile post office service), in addition also often count that assume from mails, the sales of stamps in addition, in and disbursement of postal bank assets and other postal service achievements, can by the MoPS are settled.

Zusteller spend approximately a quarter of the daily work time in the setting base (ZSP), in former times post office, with the pre-sorting of the post office, they bring the letters into the correct order to their distribution, in order to be able to set them briskly afterwards.

In some districts of delivery, on the distribution distance post office file boxes (to resemble purely outwardly the telephone junction boxes) developed in those the Zusteller for the remaining way of its route the mails gets.

The Zusteller are in enterprise clothes (uniform) on the way, and thus the visible sign for the respective post office enterprise.

Mobility

There are different possibilities for Zusteller of moving within its district of delivery. The most well-known probably are to foot with setting car (post office cart), by post office bicycle, with moped or scooter, with the passenger car (like e.g. VOLKSWAGEN beetle, VOLKSWAGEN gulf, Renault Kangoo,"…) or with the transporter.

Which means of transport is selected, it depends on the fact where the mails must be brought and whether it concerns letters, packages or packages. In a large city it is for example more meaningful to drive with the bicycle in order to go around annoying of back-up. On the country better automobiles are used, since the ways are longer. Paketzusteller are with transporters on the way and lead also a handset scanner with itself, on which the receiver with its signature must confirm the receipt of the package.

In certain areas further modes of conveyance are necessary. Like that the Postzusteller is for example equipped in the winter with Langlaufskiern in the Black Forest. In the Spreewald the post office is set by raft. Around the year 1900 were sporty Zusteller also by ice skates in the winter on frozen over waters on the way.

Is the task of the Zustellers admits less to examine stamps for their cancellation. If the Postwertzeichen should not have been cancelled with a postmark, then this is later settled by the Zusteller. This happens mostly handwritten by ball-point pens, pencil or colored pencil with bluer, recently also with blacker, color.

Art

The postmen are an extremely popular motive in the art, music, literature or in the film.

• Connoisseurs and lovers of thrust blank songs remember some places - e.g. to that sadly moved: "The post office does not bring a letter for you,"… which strikes you so wunderlich, my "
• The Marvelettes asked 1961 for example with Please Mr. Postman their postman to wait and check again one minute whether it nevertheless does not have still another letter of "it" in its bag. This title was gecovert later of the Beatles and the Carpenters.
• Elvis Presley with the title: Return ton of transmitters (Nichtzustellbarkeitsvermerk on a returned letter)
• In Carl Zellers Operette of the bird dealers of 1891 is the bride of the Protagonisten Adam a certain Christel of the post office. Under this title also 1956 were turned by Karl Anton a homeland film.
• Alois Brandstetter dedicates its novel (1974) to a down-Bavarian postman "debited to the postman ", who experienced 1992 also as play at the Viennese Sweden place its premiere.
• Charles Bukowski processed own memories in the novel "the man with polishing with a leather ash ".
• Film: If the post office man rings twice
• Film: Postman from Kevin Costner after the novel of the same name of David Brin

One of the most well-known Zusteller in Germany was a money postman walter Spahrbier, from the ZDF-program Vergissmeinnicht.

Protection patron

Protection patron of the Zusteller is the ore gels Gabriel.

Related links

• Occupation information of the German post office AG to the specialist for courier, express and postal service achievements (pdf version)

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