mailman
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All my countless calls to Social Security, with one question they could never answer, were resolved by the mailman today.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
But until a friend mentioned Hanwha’s hiring spree this spring, Phillips had never considered a future in the industry, having previously worked as a mailman and a commercial landscaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
In the mid-1960s, Louvenia Jenkins posed a question to her mailman: Do any Black people live in Pacific Palisades?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
When he wasn’t officiating games, Jury was first a mailman and later an officer for the California Highway Patrol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2024
Max assures me that the mailman does not know my name or my address.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
It requires a network of processing centers, post offices, layers of management, truck fleets, and a huge force of mailmen and women to drop those credit card offers in your mailbox every afternoon.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
Still, it seems fair to say that Jody-ness is not equally distributed among the world’s milkmen and mailmen: There are Jodys, and there are Jodys.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
A night-shift postal employee, he heard mailmen were now scared to deliver mail on the street.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2016
Buses were running and mailmen made their rounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
No word yet on how they react to mailmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
