Letter carrier uniform jacket

Penn Garment Co. · 1906-1956

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.