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mailman

[mayl-man] / ˈmeɪlˌmæn /


NOUN
mail carrier
Synonyms


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“I don’t want to see him fired, but I would like to see him given a different route,” Davis said of the mailman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 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

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

His father fought in World War II’s Battle of the Bulge and came home to serve as a mailman, before dying of a heart attack in 1961.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2025

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

The Post Office, for example, has bought 120,000 bottles of animal repellent for mailmen to clip onto their belts.

From Time Magazine Archive

No word yet on how they react to mailmen.

From Time Magazine Archive




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