mail carrier

as in letter carrier
a person who delivers mail we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas

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Recent Examples of mail carrier Give them to your mail carrier and gardeners, as well as veterinary offices. Lisa Bloch, Mercury News, 20 May 2025 This design offers a bird's-eye view of a bustling town, using sequential artwork to tell the story of a mail carrier's journey through four seasons. Kristen Waggoner, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 June 2025 Notably, Houston mail carrier Heman Marion Sweatt was the successful plaintiff in the 1950 US Supreme Court case Sweatt v. Painter, the precursor to Brown v. Board of Education. Sarah Prager, JSTOR Daily, 12 Mar. 2025 In response to the threats, no mail carriers were sent to the Kirwan Terrace Housing Community for two days, temporarily disrupting mail delivery, authorities said. Lauren Liebhaber, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for mail carrier
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mail carrier
Noun
  • His mother was a Catholic school teacher, and his father was a letter carrier.
    Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 26 May 2025
  • Two Chicago men were arrested in connection to a 2022 armed robbery of a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier in Hinsdale as well as financial crimes related to several mail theft incidents in Hinsdale and Oak Brook, according to the Chicago Division of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
    Paul Eisenberg, Chicago Tribune, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • McClatchy News reached out to her attorney May 27 and was awaiting a response. LeBlanc, 48, a longtime postal service employee, worked as Seekonk Post Office’s postmaster from late 2023 to the beginning of 2025, prosecutors said.
    Sara Schilling, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
  • Reynolds retired as postmaster of the Yosemite post office in 2023 after a 44-year USPS career in and near the national park.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • The easiest life to imagine was the life of the postman.
    Patricia Lockwood, New Yorker, 18 May 2025
  • These trees are all clones from the original Hass tree developed by Rudolph Hass, a postman in Los Angeles.
    Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025

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“Mail carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mail%20carrier. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.

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