Happy New Year 2020!!! 

 

 

  

Many wishes for a happy holiday season!

 

 

Pinch and punch have a nice month!

Knock, knock, winter is at the door!!!

 

 

 

Le facteur de notre coeur

The postman of our hearts

Reunion Island

 

Dear partners, in Reunion, the most famous postman passed away a few months ago.

There is a song that pays tribute to the postman of Mafate, who walks for many kilometers everyday to deliver letters in the cirque of Mafate. The band is called Batker. Enjoy watching the video and listening to the song! 

L’ancien facteur de Mafate, Ivrin Pausé est décédé à 91 ans. Il aura parcouru 253 000 km à pieds, soit six fois le tour de la terre, pour livrer le courrier aux habitants du cirque. Reportage de Réunion La 1ère :

The old postman of the Mafate area, Irvin Pausé, passed away at the age of 91 years old. He walked 253000 km on foot, a distance which equals three time the circuit of earth, to deliver letters to the habitants of the cirque. 

 Le cirque de Mafate

 

Reunion Island

Happy New School Year

 

A new school year began. We are ready for new experiences, new learning adventures, new friends and new partners. Welcome to our project. We continue believing in the power of collaboration and the joining possibilities through new technologies.

It's hard to be a mailman in the mountains during winter

The song "Hey, mailman, find me a boyfriend!"

Kid's TV show "Guess what"

In this TV show a guest commes to kids and they have to guess who is he, what is his profession. 

Here, a postman is showing his old and torn shoes. 

A rock song from Serbia - Vojna pošta 100/3 (The military post office 100/3)

Childrens TV show "What would have happened if it happened" (Шта би било, кад би било)

In this famous childrens TV show the host was Aca the mailman.

It was an educational TV show of the Belgrade Television, which was on air from 1986 until 1988. It was again on air at the beginning of the 90s. The host's name was Mladen Andrejevic, but beside him, a lot of preschoolers were in the show, named little postmen. A lot of famous actors and TV personalities were guests of the show. 

The show was dealing with the important questions of growing up. Kids were sending letters to Aca the mailman in which they told him their troubles and dilemmas. Every letter's beginning was: "Dear Aca and the little mailmen..." He would have read the letter, and with the help of the little mailmen, he would help solving the problem. Their helper was also the animated purple pidgeon Guta, who also had a mailman's hat and bag. Guta would sing the instructive answer. 

They had an official song: 

Аца је увек Аца,

од напред и од натрашке,

Аца је увек Аца,

за странце и за нашке.

Аца је незаменљив,

кад нешто низбрдо крене,

његова велика торба,

примиће тебе и мене.

Aca is always Aca,

from the front and from the back (meaning: you read his name the same from the beginning as from the end)

Aca is always Aca,

for the foreigners and the ours.

Aca is irreplaceable,

when something goes wrong,

his huge bag

will embrace you and me.

The rock band "The nervous mailman"

The funny video about a kid in a circus. This band was famous in the former Yugoslavia around the year 1980. If you understand the serbian language, read more: https://www.nervoznipostar.com/o-grupi/

The mailman in Serbia today

Serbian mailman today

Pošta. Radnici ovog preduzeća su do 1850. nosili odelo zelene boje, a deceniju kasnije već su oblačili odelo boje tamne višnje. Ta lepa boja uniforme nije dugo trajala, tek do prve decenije 20. veka. Sakoi su bili dvoredni sa otvorenim reverima i vratnom maramom. Dugmeta su imala simbol državnog grba, a razlike u činovima pravili su broj i boja poprečno postavljenih širita na ramenima (zlatna ili srebrna).

Pošto su poštari bili veoma važno zanimanje u ono vreme (bez struje, telefona i interneta) radili su mnogo i teško opslužujući gradove i sela, zimi i leti i nosili su poštu peške, ponekad na konju. Zato su im dobijali zgodne šinjele sa kapuljačom i čizme. Kasnije je donet i pravilnik „o odevanju poštansko-telegrafskih služitelja“ koji je propisivao odelo tamno sive boje, šinjel braon boje sa laticama na kragni, trubu na trobojnom gajtanu (da obaveste dolazak). Kao znak raspoznavanja nosili su na reverima trubicu sa munjicom (oznaka telegrafske struke).

Post office. The workers of Post office wore the green uniforme until 1850, and a decade later they had a uniforme with the colour of the dark sour cherry. This beautiful colour of the uniform did not last long. Only to the first decade of the 20th century. The jackets were with two lines of buttons, with open lapels and with neck scarfs. The buttons had the simbol of the state coat of arms, and differences in the rank was made with the number and the colour of the gimps on the shoulders (golden or silver). 

As postmen were very important at the time (with no electricity, telephone or internet) they worked very hard trying to serve cities and villages. During winters and summers they were carrying mail on foot, sometimes by horse. That is why they were supplied with nice overcoats with hoods and some boots. Later they got a manual about the dress code of the postal and telegraphical servants which insisted on having a uniforme of the dark gray colour, the brown overcoat with petals on the collar, with a trumpet od a tricolor braid (to enounce the arrival). As a sign of recognition, they had a little trumpet with a little lightning on the lapel (which was a simbol of the telegraphical service).

The text is translated from http://mdexplorer.rs/radne-uniforme-drzavnih-sluzbenika-u-srbiji-na-prelasku-vekova/

Serbian old stamps

Some of Serbian old stamps 

Our old post offices in Belgrade and Novi Sad, and more: our post boxes, now and before

 Old post office in Novi Sad Old post office in Belgrade

Picture on an old envelope

Old public mail box

Old mail box 

In Serbia public mail boxes are often yellow.