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mailman

noun as in letter carrier

noun as in mail carrier

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His father fought in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge and came home to serve as a mailman, before dying of a heart attack in 1961.

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He ordered breakfast in from Café Vida as routinely as I might put a letter out for the mailman.

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The cheeky son of a mailman became the first American to win the U.S.

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Not too long ago, I did a post about a mailman that was a video I grabbed online — it was an exposé on PBS about the life and times after the 1992 riots.

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When he wasn’t officiating games, Jury was first a mailman and later an officer for the California Highway Patrol.

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