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
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 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
“I’ll write you, W.E. The mailman will bring you a letter with your name on it. Just for you.”
From "The Great Gilly Hopkins" by Katherine Paterson
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
While the Justice Department was presenting its case against Eller and preparing for the probable next trial, in San Diego, of Benjamin Sasway, 21, mailmen were delivering warning letters to another 33,000 non-registrants.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors.
From Time Magazine Archive
