What did the Postschutz actually protect? The post office - from what? Someone urinating in the telephone booths inside while pretending to make a phonecall? Or did they protect the mail - from nogoodniks stealing nice picture postcards - or welfare checks - or Christmas packages loaded with cookies and dried camomile tea?
The picture above shows a Postschutz enlisted man with a dagger. This gives credence to my view I've been holding all along that the daggers were worn by every mail carrier, even truckdrivers for UPS and FEDEX and all thems that delivered the mail via oxen drawn stagecoach in the rural communities. Yessir!
