A labouring friend of mine was telling me the other day of the wonderful disappearance of a packman and a "jewelrer," as he called him.
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs
However, private mail still goes by packman or common carrier.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
As the young men and boys of the Bannons worked at their looms, and the women and girls at their spinning and "flowering," when not wanted to help on the land, the father, Oiney, would occasionally go over to England as a travelling packman, and so increase the family store.
"The Life Story of an Old Rebel"
John Denvir