Even for an early film this one stands out as a particularly pointless exercise. American Mutoscope & Biograph made a whole series of these films covering everything from the mail being collected from post boxes to being delivered to homes. This one shows a postman on a bicycle entering screen left and parking his bicycle outside a house. He dismounts his bike and knocks on th door of the house. A housewife answers and signs for the letter he is delivering. Once he has his signature the postman gets back onto his bicycle and exits screen left. All this takes about forty seconds, which is probably the films only saving grace.
