as in letter carrier
a person who delivers mail
we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas
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Recent Examples of mail carrier
Stagecoach Mary was one of the baddest women in history, and a trailblazer in her own right, as the first Black woman to hold a position as a mail carrier in this country.
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Jaha Nailah Avery, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
Remarkably, the customer recognized the name and the address on the check as the same that his mail carrier, Muchimba, had used on a holiday card sent to residents on his mail route the previous December.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
An exchange between a lawn care worker and a mail carrier turned dangerous when a whirring weed whacker was used as a weapon, Texas investigators say.
—Mark Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
The watchdog agency's report pointed to higher average wage rates for mail carriers compared to those for temporary census workers, as well as the large number of hours needed to follow up with households that don't respond to the census on their own.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
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Jaha Nailah Avery, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
Remarkably, the customer recognized the name and the address on the check as the same that his mail carrier, Muchimba, had used on a holiday card sent to residents on his mail route the previous December.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
An exchange between a lawn care worker and a mail carrier turned dangerous when a whirring weed whacker was used as a weapon, Texas investigators say.
—Mark Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
The watchdog agency's report pointed to higher average wage rates for mail carriers compared to those for temporary census workers, as well as the large number of hours needed to follow up with households that don't respond to the census on their own.
—Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 10 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mail carrier
Noun
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Karen Bass, daughter of a letter carrier, beat him by 7 points.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Since May 2023, the Postal Inspection Service has made over 1,200 arrests for letter carrier robberies and mail theft nationwide.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
14 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In 1835, an anti-abolition mob raided the Charleston, South Carolina, post office and, with the help of the city postmaster, burned bundles of abolitionist newspapers.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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The first postage stamps Until 1847, people would take correspondence to the post office, where the postmaster would mark the postage in the upper right corner.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 2025
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These trees are all clones from the original Hass tree developed by Rudolph Hass, a postman in Los Angeles.—
Elizabeth Weise,
USA TODAY,
3 Mar. 2025
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That’s best demonstrated by a novel gameplay mechanic in the form of a camera that Indy acquires from a dissident postman called Ernesto.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Mail carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mail%20carrier. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
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