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These rural routes are the latest trend being used by smugglers, exploiting a lack of border resources, according to a senior U.S Customs Border Patrol official.
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Mireya Villarreal, ABC News, 7 Dec. 2023
Mail carriers say they’ve been mandated to work on Sundays, delivering mail seven days a week on lonely rural routes that can now take up to 12 hours to complete.
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Caroline O'Donovan, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
Lindsey, a rural route carrier for the USPS, was pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck on Alabama Highway 55 near U.S. Highway 84, WAKA reported.
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Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2023
Brett Hawkes Hawkes, 71, is an avid cyclist and decided the best way to travel the rural route was on his bike.
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Christopher Muther, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
When Datsun, Toyota, et al., zeroed in on the population centers of this vast land to build splashy dealerships, Subaru took a lower-profile rural route.
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Car and Driver, 28 Sep. 2022
The Columbus Dispatch GALLIPOLIS – For 30 years, Michael Miller has delivered mail on the same rural route in southern Ohio’s Gallia County.
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Sheridan Hendrix, The Enquirer, 18 Aug. 2020
For 30 years, Michael Miller has delivered mail on the same rural route in southern Ohio’s Gallia County.
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Sheridan Hendrix, USA TODAY, 18 Aug. 2020
Anna's father, Larry Gorman, spent three decades as a rural route mail carrier.
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Holly V. Hays, The Indianapolis Star, 3 July 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
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“Rural route.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rural%20route. Accessed 9 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
rural route
noun
: a postal route in a rural free delivery area
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