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postman

[pohst-muhn] / ˈpoʊst mən /


NOUN
mail carrier
Synonyms


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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

Unsure who was responsible, or who might have read her most private thoughts, she became terrified to take public transport, leave home, or even open the door to the postman.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2026

The only time I have known him to show impatience is when the postman lags, for it means we must wait another day before the arrival of our English mail.

From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier

“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

Two postmen rightly deducted that it was meant for Shane, who regularly had similar boxes delivered.

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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