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Letter carrier uniform jacket

Postal Museum

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  • Gray suit-jacket with black piping, gold buttons, and two embroidered gold stars above each cuff

    Object Details

    Manufacturer

    Penn Garment Co.

    Description

    Letter carriers donned this shapeless style of uniform jacket, also referred to as a "sack coat," on their daily rounds for city delivery service. The jacket fastens by five brass buttons featuring an imprint of a uniformed letter carrier in mid-stride above the letters “P.O.D.” for 'Post Office Department'. (The POD kept this style of buttons in circulation from 1893 to 1970.) Above this cuff’s black trim are two silver service stars, worn by letter carriers to denote thirty years of service. The POD introduced the color-coded service star patches in 1899 to replace the service stripes.
    Reference:
    National Association of Letter Carriers. “Dressed for Success: The Evolution of Letter Carrier Uniforms.” Postal Record. October 1986.
    http://blue.usps.gov/postalhistory/histuniforms.htm (Accessed June 6, 2002)

    Credit line

    Transfer from Post Office Department

    Date

    1906-1956

    Object number

    0.234863.5

    Type

    Employee Gear

    Medium

    wool; thread; brass

    Dimensions

    Height x Width: 27 × 14 1/2 in. (68.58 × 36.83 cm)

    Place

    United States of America

    See more items in

    National Postal Museum Collection

    Data Source

    National Postal Museum

    Topic

    Postal Employees

    Metadata Usage

    CC0

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/hm8f0aad00f-2daf-4fad-ac02-b88b10dbf98f

    Record ID

    npm_0.234863.5

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