mailman
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Fred Melamed, as a mailman who narrates the story, seems desperate for a laugh, and doesn’t earn many.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
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
Postal Service and on Wednesday a truck appeared with a mailman who set about making room for more than 400 games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
He ordered breakfast in from Café Vida as routinely as I might put a letter out for the mailman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
Jan came up at one to tell us it had been the mailman.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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
The Post Office, for example, has bought 120,000 bottles of animal repellent for mailmen to clip onto their belts.
From Time Magazine Archive
A stop-the-clock postal pay deal aids the battle against inflation All across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise.
From Time Magazine Archive
