Let him do it, mand. Let him do it.
But the 6-foot-tall, 250-pound mail carrier from Lacey, Wash., doesn’t worry about anyone questioning his virility, or ogling his bare knees. He just wants to feel as free as a woman wearing a skirt.
“A lot of people think I’m crazy,” said Peterson, 48, who became a mail carrier after retiring from the Air Force eight years ago. “This is important to me – I just want to be comfortable. I just want the option.”
As some 10,000 mail carriers gather in Boston this week for the 66th biennial convention of the National Association of Letter Carriers, Peterson is on a one-man mission to persuade his colleagues to approve a change in their strictly regulated uniforms. He has proposed a resolution to allow mailmen to wear kilts, which he calls a Male Unbifurcated Garment, or MUG.
Over the past few weeks, he says he has spent the $1,800 he received as part of the federal government’s stimulus package to send about 1,000 letters and photographs of a mockup of the new uniform to postal union branches in every state, as well as Guam and Puerto Rico.
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Knucklehead // July 22, 2008 at 6:45 am |
From a former letter carrier to another–if the dude is of Scottish ancestry and has a family tartan to display, let him friggin’ do it! If people truly knew how messed up the USPS is. There are a few good supervisors/managers but, for the most part, most are uneducated or undereducated to be placed in positions of authority. Tapadh leibh.
Steven // August 9, 2008 at 2:24 pm |
I thought the Government fought against discrimination? I guess it’s not the same when it’s between the sexes, but then what was woman’s rights all about?