Famous people who have delivered the mail

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Postman Pat and Cliff Clavin are TV's most celebrated postmen - but a host of celebrities have done their time delivering the mail.

Postman Pat, who is now going to have his own 3D movie, may lay claim to being the world's most famous postman. But here are some other famous posties:

Charles Bukowski, novelist and poet
The acclaimed American writer's first novel, published in 1971, was called Post Office and was about his time as a postman in Los Angeles. Before giving up the job, he said: "I have one of two choices – stay in the post office and go crazy ... or stay out here and play at writer and starve. I have decided to starve."

Raymond van Barneveld, darts player
When he won his first BDO title in 1998 - in a final watched by five million Dutch TV viewers - he was still a working postman but, on his return, 10,000 fans greeted him at Schiphol airport. He said: "As a postman I earned £840 a month and always struggled to look after my wife and three kids. Then suddenly I won a world title and £40,000 and everyone in Holland said 'He deserves it because he's such a nice fellow'. But once I turned pro, and the money rolled in, people said 'Oh, he's so arrogant!'"

Neil Webb, Manchester United and England footballer
In 2004, Neil Webb took a job as a postman in Reading, saying at the time: 'It's good exercise. And I'm home by lunch ... It's a job. What else do people expect me to do?'

John Prine, singer and songwriter
The Grammy winning folk singer John Prine was a postman for five years. He was spotted singing part-time in a bar which led to a professional career.

Cliff Clavin, TV postman
John Ratzenberger's postman was a main character on the NBC series Cheers. He used to toast people by saying: "As they say down at the post office, "here's looking up your address".One of his mail-related statements was: They did a study between postal workers and chimpanzees. They proved chimps were 32 percent slower. Of course, they were better with public relations."

Among other people who have been postmen are Allan B. Calhamer (the inventor of board game Diplomacy), Bon Scott (former lead singer of AC/DC), snooker player Terry Griffiths, footballers David Harvey, Kevin Hector and even Peter Bonetti, who had a spell delivering bills and cards to the residents of the Isle of Mull. And, least we forget, Allan Smethurst, Norfolk's singing mailman

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Joseph Roulin.

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Neil Webb, Manchester United and England footballer
In 2004, Neil Webb took a job as a postman in Reading, saying at the time: 'It's good exercise. And I'm home by lunch ... It's a job. What else do people expect me to do?'

Not anymore Neil!!!

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Neil Webb, Manchester United and England footballer
In 2004, Neil Webb took a job as a postman in Reading, saying at the time: 'It's good exercise. And I'm home by lunch ... It's a job. What else do people expect me to do?'

Not anymore Neil!!!

Shows you how top flight footballers pay has changed if he had to find a low paid job after his career.

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fcukin me

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Neil Webb, Manchester United and England footballer
In 2004, Neil Webb took a job as a postman in Reading, saying at the time: 'It's good exercise. And I'm home by lunch ... It's a job. What else do people expect me to do?'

Not anymore Neil!!!

Shows you how top flight footballers pay has changed if he had to find a low paid job after his career.

Webb must be kicking himself, if he was around nowadays he'd be on £50k a week somewhere. My dad still likes to talk about how good he was during his first spell at Forest. He has quite a few medals to his name; 2 league cups, an FA cup, European Cup Winners Cup, Super Cup. Poor bloke having to go from that to ... this.

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Alan Arthur Johnson (born 17 May 1950) is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009 to May 2010. Before that, he filled a wide variety of cabinet positions in both the Blair and Brown governments, including Health Secretary and Education Secretary. Until 20 January 2011 he was Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer. Johnson has been the Member of Parliament for Hull West and Hessle since 1997.

Born in London on 17 May 1950, the son of Stephen and Lillian Johnson, he was orphaned at the age of 12 when his mother died, Johnson was then in effect brought up by his older sister when the two were assigned a council flat by their child welfare officer. He passed the 11 plus exam and attended Sloane Grammar School in Chelsea, now part of Pimlico Academy, and left school at the age of 15. He then stacked shelves at Tesco before becoming a postman at 18. He was interested in music and joined two pop music bands. Johnson joined the Union of Communication Workers, becoming a branch official. He joined the Labour Party in 1971, although he considered himself a Marxist ideologically aligned with the Communist Party of Great Britain. A full-time union official from 1987, he became General Secretary of the newly formed Communication Workers Union in 1993 following a series of union mergers.

Before entering parliament Johnson was a member of Labour's National Executive Committee. During this time he was the only major union leader to support the abolition of Clause IV.

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Lance Armstrong's mother sorted mail at one time.

Pity she never gave Lance some of the mail to deliver, wudda been a quick round no doubt!

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Mark Dennis, who played for scummers as well as others, was a scum postie at one time. Last time I heard of him was on talksport doing some interview. Not really famous as he didn't play for us, but I've heard some great stories about his time at RM

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Both Shaun and Paul Ryder were Postmen.....

Peter Hook, the New Order and Joy Division bassist....
"1983 was the year Happy Mondays first played at the Haçienda, in one of the regular Battle of the Bands competitions. It was their second-ever performance, it was a complete shambles, and they came last in the competition. However, the bassist, Paul Ryder, was my postman and he always slipped demo tapes through my door. It was when I got a tape of "The Egg" that I passed one along to Tony."

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Who was the one that admitted he either nicked from the post,or he crossed a picket line,can't rem who it was but we've discussed it on here before.

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Who was the one that admitted he either nicked from the post,or he crossed a picket line,can't rem who it was but we've discussed it on here before.

Leighton or Crozier ?