Mail Delivery (sculptures)

Mail Delivery is a set of four relief sculptures by Edmond Amateis completed in 1941 for the Section of Painting and Sculpture and displayed at the U.S. Court House and Post Office Building in Philadelphia, now called the Robert N. C. Nix, Sr., Federal Building, at 9th and Market Streets.

A postal carrier is dressed in a double-breasted uniform jacket and small round cap.

He is bent over, like all the subjects in the reliefs, in this case over the front bumper of car and a mailbox attached to a fluted column.

An Eskimo dressed in a hooded parka bends over his dog sled, which is loaded with mail bags.

A bare-chested man of African descent dressed in only a pair of trousers delivers mail to a rural mailbox.