Why are mail men called mail men,why are post men called post men?

Question

(they are the same thing).

Is there a historical reasoning behind it?

Answer 1

Blame the French.

Also, I just want to thank Fairy for providing the male answer, thus saving me from having to.

The whole thing is blooming ridiculous by the looks of it. Assimilating from here, it seems that in the UK, the Royal Mail uses postmen, but in the US the Postal Service uses Mailmen.

When are they going to stop pretending that they speak English?

Answer 2

Mail men carry the mail or the mail men post the mail hence post men

Answer 3

mail men is a bit silly because all men are male :P
Well as far as I see it, post men are English and mail men are American, but they are the same thing.
But it could be that the post men go to the post offfice to collect the post for distribution and the mail men go to a royal mail place to collect mail for distribution :)

Answer 4

Why in the UK does the Royal Mail service use postmen, but in the US the US Postal service uses mail men?

Answer 5

Because some people call post post and others call it mail.

Answer 6

mail men are called that because they deliver your mail right before your door while the post man gets the mail from the postbox where you live your mail for pickup

Answer 7

It depends on which country you live in or some times which part of a country you live in and the reason its men is because it used to be a male dominated profession

Answer 8

I guess the postal and mail services started after the colonisation of the USA, so there wasn't a name change, they just started independently in two different countries.

Answer 9

Same difference...they do the same job. They deliver post or mail or whatever you want to call it.

Answer 10

please - political correctness...

Mail person and Post person.... Mail comes from the American, where Post is a British term.