Neither Rain, Nor Snow Keep These Beauties Away: Postwomen on World Post Day

The Russian Post has the largest branch network in the country with about 42 thousand post offices and unites one of the largest bodies of employees in Russia, with about 350 thousand postal workers in total.

Each year, the Russian Post receives about 2.5 billion letters and invoices (of which 1 billion are from government agencies) and processes about 365 million parcels.

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A postwoman delivering the mail.

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Postwomen deliver newspapers to the Baikal-Amur Mainline, Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

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Postwoman Andrea Bunar delivering the mail on a boat near Lehde, eastern Germany, on March 25, 2015 during the annual start of postal deliveries by boat.

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Moscow postwoman Irina Skvortsova with newspapers.

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A postwoman and her male colleague deliver the mail on 30 August, 2001 in Rabat. For the first time in Morocco, 68 women delivered the mail in 16 Moroccan cities.

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Postwoman Celia Ruivo-Alves carries a crate containing mails during her morning round in Chevilly-Larue, southern Paris, on October 20, 2016.

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An official of the "Magyar Posta" (Hungarian Post) Bernadett Kasza delivers money to a woman in her district in Budapest on October 18, 2013. The young postwoman received the award of "Best Post official in 2012."

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The librarian and postwoman of the state farm named after Yuri Gagarin - Muscovite Nadia Golubkova.

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A postwoman loads her delivery car at a post service station at the German Post Office in Kiel, northern Germany, on Friday, April 18, 2008.

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A London postwoman, wearing slacks and a nifty hat, collects letters from a corner mailbox in London, Nov. 30, 1942. Because of the need for men in the armed services and in production factories, London women took up many jobs formerly held by men.

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Work at the automated sorting center "Post of Russia" in the village of Lviv, Moscow region.

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Photo of a postwoman posing with new equipment.