mailman
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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
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
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
Not far into the ride, he saw the local mailman in front of a house.
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
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
Buses were running and mailmen made their rounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
