Why is it that when it comes to portraying or referring to a romantically-endowed delivery man, they always say about a UPS guy, never a DHL boy or TNT buddy or even a USPS man?
Is it because DHL sounds a bit foreign now that it is taken by Deutsche Post? Or is TNT not exactly an image of your old-time delivery company? Or does USPS sound fatter than UPS and therefore does not reinforce an image of a lean muscular and young man who delivers parcels and may deliver your happiness. Be it happiness for a quicky or for a life time?
And why is it always a UPS guy, not man, boy, buddy, hunk, bro, pal or mate?
3 September, 2009 at 1:25 pm |
What is TNT? In my mind this abbreviation is asscoiated with a thing other than a postal service (no, no, not a Russian TV channel either)
Do you want to say that in the US, most goods are delivered not solely by US Postal Service and that international postal services such as DHL are no less popular there?
15 September, 2009 at 7:29 am |
Well, TNT is an international postal/courier service. Most packages in the US are delivered by state USPS or private UPS or FedEx. DHL also delivers I guess, but I’ve never seen a DHL truck in New Orleans.