postman
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Margaret Watson was a dinner lady and her husband Jim was doing casual shifts as a postman.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Mr. Bonds is as friendly as a whistling postman and, more than that, a baseball genius, according to testimonies from such worthies as Don Mattingly and Dusty Baker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Before fully dedicating himself to music, Lake worked as a postman and did manual labor jobs in the fish processing industry in the U.K.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
On a chilly Saturday morning in December 1976, postman Nigel Rossiter pulled up outside the isolated Ffynon Samson farmhouse in west Wales.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
And the postman and the trolley motorman and half a dozen policemen from the Haarlem Police Headquarters just around the corner.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
“I ask the postmen in Spain to work to the maximum, morning, afternoon and night,” Feijóo said during a campaign rally in Murcia on Wednesday.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023
Other professional groups, from barristers to postmen, also plan to hit the barricades in coming weeks to demand more pay read more .
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022
They’re policemen and grocers and postmen and doctors and nurses.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
Even small daily moments of interaction help, such as chatting to postmen or shopkeepers.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 3, 2019
The boys worked as neighborhood postmen, delivering draft notices and monthly ration cards.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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