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
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
He ordered breakfast in from Café Vida as routinely as I might put a letter out for the mailman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2025
There have been times I’ve rushed away from my papers to answer the phone; gladly gotten up from my chair, hearing the mailman outside.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
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 mailmen also knew where to deliver letters addressed to "Benedict Arnold 2nd" and "Chief Shooter at the Moon, White Father of the Pretty Bubbles."
From Time Magazine Archive
Earlier this month, the Post Office Committee reported out still another bill providing the mailmen with a 5.4% increase retroactive to January.
From Time Magazine Archive
