mailman
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The thud of a hammering Hulksmash rattles our seats; later, a cocked rifle is so crisp we perk up like a dog hearing the mailman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
In the mid-1960s, Louvenia Jenkins posed a question to her mailman: Do any Black people live in Pacific Palisades?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
He was on a motorcycle, and he waved to a mailman and ... he didn’t like to think about it.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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
While the Justice Department was presenting its case against Eller and preparing for the probable next trial, in San Diego, of Benjamin Sasway, 21, mailmen were delivering warning letters to another 33,000 non-registrants.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Post Office, for example, has bought 120,000 bottles of animal repellent for mailmen to clip onto their belts.
From Time Magazine Archive
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