Examples of mail carrier in a Sentence
we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas
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Other service providers Mail carrier U.S. Postal Service mail carriers are federal workers, and they aren’t legally allowed to accept nonmonetary gifts worth more than $20 or monetary gifts at all.
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Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 15 Nov. 2023
In March, Alicia’s fellow mail carriers threw a party at the Akron senior center with cake and presents.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
There was no automation back then, so Whitaker sometimes came to work around 5 or 6 a.m. to manually sort the mail.
Carrying cash from grandparents, paychecks, love letters, mail carriers used to be greeted like celebrities when walking down the street.
—Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
In it, a grieving mail carrier finds a mysterious letter that resurrects her husband from the dead, and must race against time to make three sacrifices before he’s banished to the abyss for eternity.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
How to donate: Put your items in a bag, and leave it next to your mailbox for your mail carrier to pick up Saturday morning.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
Two months earlier, 66-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Eugene Gates collapsed on his Dallas route, during a June day when the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning, and later died.
—Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
Dogs are said to be man's best friend, but there's many a mail carrier who will tell you otherwise.
—USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
Last week, for example, the justices heard arguments in Groff v. DeJoy, which highlights a dispute pertaining to a part-time mail carrier who resigned after the Postal Service required him to work on the Sabbath.
—Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2023
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Aly J. Yale, wsj.com, 15 Nov. 2023
In March, Alicia’s fellow mail carriers threw a party at the Akron senior center with cake and presents.
—Eli Hager, ProPublica, 16 Oct. 2023
There was no automation back then, so Whitaker sometimes came to work around 5 or 6 a.m. to manually sort the mail.
Carrying cash from grandparents, paychecks, love letters, mail carriers used to be greeted like celebrities when walking down the street.
—Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2023
In it, a grieving mail carrier finds a mysterious letter that resurrects her husband from the dead, and must race against time to make three sacrifices before he’s banished to the abyss for eternity.
—Selome Hailu, Variety, 12 Sep. 2023
How to donate: Put your items in a bag, and leave it next to your mailbox for your mail carrier to pick up Saturday morning.
—Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 May 2023
Two months earlier, 66-year-old U.S. Postal Service mail carrier Eugene Gates collapsed on his Dallas route, during a June day when the National Weather Service issued an excessive heat warning, and later died.
—Adiel Kaplan, NBC News, 1 Sep. 2023
Dogs are said to be man's best friend, but there's many a mail carrier who will tell you otherwise.
—USA TODAY, 11 May 2023
Last week, for example, the justices heard arguments in Groff v. DeJoy, which highlights a dispute pertaining to a part-time mail carrier who resigned after the Postal Service required him to work on the Sabbath.
—Lucien Bruggeman, ABC News, 27 Apr. 2023
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First Known Use
1788, in the meaning defined above
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