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Historians, other experts, what does MAILER refer to here?

• No, I don't mean Norman Mailer. The word did remind me there was a very famous person--I was thinking author all the while and finally looked him up. But I didn't put name in CAPS here in order to get literary or other experts to answer!!!! I put it in big letters so as to make it more noticeable and finally get an answer to a question I've been asking for the last hour. It so happens I've posted one question here on Yahoo about a particular column written by someone named John E. Tilton and have found out the newspaper was from Upper Darby, PA. I also just asked another question which included all the information about the wages been offered a MAILER back then and which was advertised in a Help Wanted ad. Coincidentally--and probably I'm too tired today to do any more "detective work"--I looked up THE PUBLISHERS' AUXILIARY on internet (of course), hoping to find it was a particular newspaper but have found many different articles or websites which have the same name but belong to different states. When I'm not so tired I will research all this. ....and coincidentally as I was saying the word MAILER is splashed across an article on that particular online newspaper I just saw. The story has to do with the U S Postal Service and the fact that employees are not happy, etc., etc. This leads me to believe that MAILER is a mailman? A post carrier? If it is, and by all the "clues" that I have just written about here on this question: Where was THE PUBLISHERS' AUXILIARY paper from? And based on the $1.63 per hour, 71/2 shift, $12.27 per shift in Billings, Montana, in which the ads ends with "Wire at once", instead of "phone in" or "dial this number": what year did all this take place? Or at least the decade? And if mailer means, mailman or mail carrier, where in the U.S. is it known otherwise? P.S. Merriam Webster gives three difnitions and none refers to mail carriers! THANK YOU!!!!

• Answer:

  Not a letter carrier. This was a "work at home" deal where the employer would send the worker junk to insert into a provided envelope. They would be paid by how many you stuffed and mailed out. Barely better than a scam, and quite obsolete when they can now send out spam to millions with a couple clicks. Possibly in the 1980s