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
It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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
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
She had been there for the last three days, ever since the mailman had delivered another letter from Milton.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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
It was an ordinary Chicago mailbox, the kind mailmen use for stashing their extra loads while making rounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
The mailmen also knew where to deliver letters addressed to "Benedict Arnold 2nd" and "Chief Shooter at the Moon, White Father of the Pretty Bubbles."
From Time Magazine Archive
