mailman
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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
Sounds cutesy, but it’s the movie I recommended most — to everyone from my mailman to my mother.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Postal Service and on Wednesday a truck appeared with a mailman who set about making room for more than 400 games.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025
But until a friend mentioned Hanwha’s hiring spree this spring, Phillips had never considered a future in the industry, having previously worked as a mailman and a commercial landscaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
Otto recalled a similar cry from the mailman, Mr. Reynolds, when Dr. Medina’s hospital lost track of its one and only vampire bat and it bit him on the neck.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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
No word yet on how they react to mailmen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Being a letter carrier is also acceptable, and mailmen with Prince Valiant cuts abound.
From Time Magazine Archive
