In a message dated 1/29/2007 3:35:21 AM Eastern Standard Time, ja.perl@bigpond.net.au writes: Hi Everyone Came across the occupation of "Expressman" on an 1880 United States Census. Any ideas as to what his job entailed? Cheers I can think of a dozen humorous responses, but seriously I think he would be a person who drove a wagon making delieveries. Like the original Railway Express, that delivered freight from the train station to the merchants. Bob Robert Evans Page "comes from a long line of dead men." Lawrence Block from his book A Long Line of Dead Men