mail carrier

noun

Examples of mail carrier in a Sentence

we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas
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Some mail carriers even still use mules or horses to deliver to Supai, Arizona, a remote Havasupai tribal village in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, or float planes to serve fishing villages off the Alaskan coast. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 The Michael Madigan prosecution, a complex and resource-intensive project, counts as one, as does prosecuting a mail carrier for theft. Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2025 America’s federal government employs a dizzying range of workers: mail carriers and mapmakers, firefighters and fish biologists, volcanologists positioned on tectonic-plate boundaries, cooks on Navy submarines. Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025 Mary Fields was the first African American woman to become a U.S. mail carrier. Marta Balaga, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for mail carrier

Word History

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of mail carrier was in 1788

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“Mail carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mail%20carrier. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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mail carrier

noun
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