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mailman

[mayl-man] / ˈmeɪlˌmæn /


NOUN
mail carrier
Synonyms


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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

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

But how would it get to the cabin since no mailman passed and there was no mailbox like the boy had seen on the wider road nearer the town?

From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong

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

Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks.

From Time Magazine Archive


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