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postman

[pohst-muhn] / ˈpoʊst mən /


NOUN
mail carrier
Synonyms


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"We all think this Christmas will be the worst ever, for us and our customers," said one postman in the East Midlands.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mr. Bonds is as friendly as a whistling postman and, more than that, a baseball genius, according to testimonies from such worthies as Don Mattingly and Dusty Baker.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Before fully dedicating himself to music, Lake worked as a postman and did manual labor jobs in the fish processing industry in the U.K.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

On a chilly Saturday morning in December 1976, postman Nigel Rossiter pulled up outside the isolated Ffynon Samson farmhouse in west Wales.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

He was a small undersized fellow with a foxy, waxed moustache, who had seen twelve years’ service and was in civil life a postman.

From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque

“I ask the postmen in Spain to work to the maximum, morning, afternoon and night,” Feijóo said during a campaign rally in Murcia on Wednesday.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 18, 2023

Other professional groups, from barristers to postmen, also plan to hit the barricades in coming weeks to demand more pay read more .

From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2022

They’re policemen and grocers and postmen and doctors and nurses.

From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022

"It is always gratifying when our customers recognise the hard work of their postmen or women who deliver in all weathers six days a week," she said.

From BBC ● Jan. 6, 2022

Some of them wore the uniforms of the jobs they’d had too: policemen, postmen, nurses, trolley conductors.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz


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