Postie, Postie, Have You Got A Letter?

In Australia, our post (mail) has been arriving by motorbike, delivered by the "postie". Erin's preschool class at Flinders Uni played a game in which the children take turns walking around a circle of seated children and "delivering" a parcel. All the seated children sing "Postie, Postie, Have You Got A Letter?". Posties drive up and down the sidewalks, slipping envelopes into the slots of post boxes in front yards (as was our case in Brighton) or through the slot in the fence.

In Aussie lingo, a postie should not be confused with a "bikie". Bikies seem to be the Aussie equivalent of Hell's Angels folk, members of motorcycle gangs. The news from Brisbane seems to be rife with reports of them, though we've not seen any mention of them around genteel Adelaide.

Erin and I met one of our local posties, who was very kind in allowing us to take his photo and then invited her to try out his bike. Pretty awesome for a 4 yr old!