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
It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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
Not too long ago, I did a post about a mailman that was a video I grabbed online — it was an exposé on PBS about the life and times after the 1992 riots.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2025
Sometimes the mailman would wait until you wrote a response to a letter just received.
From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman
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
It was an ordinary Chicago mailbox, the kind mailmen use for stashing their extra loads while making rounds.
From Time Magazine Archive
A stop-the-clock postal pay deal aids the battle against inflation All across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise.
From Time Magazine Archive
