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
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
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
Out the window behind the aquarium, I see Mom in the yard talking to the mailman.
From "Rules" by Cynthia Lord
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
Buses were running and mailmen made their rounds.
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
