mail carrier

noun

|Updated on: 22 Jul 2018

Examples: mail carrier in a Sentence

Definition of mail carrier

: letter carrier

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Examples of mail carrier in a Sentence

we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas

Recent Examples of mail carrier from the Web

Her father was a longtime mail carrier who loved his family, fishing and his beloved, gleaming Cadillacs.

— rachel l. swarns, New York Times, "At 98, the Army Just Made Him an Officer: A Tale of Racial Bias in World War II," 29 June 2018
The bride’s father retired as a mail carrier in Suffolk for the Postal Service.

— New York Times, "Denise Jones, Anthony Baker," 1 July 2018
Summer vacations from college included playing softball three nights a week despite working as a mail carrier in East Hartford.

— courant.com, "Robert A. Schmidt," 23 May 2018
That means the company delivers packages to the Post Office closest to a customer’s house and a mail carrier completes the delivery.

— adam k. raymond, Daily Intelligencer, "Report: Trump’s Desperate to Punish Amazon by Doubling Its Postal Rate," 18 May 2018
Prine's long been a critical favorite, and early on caught the attention of esteemed peers including Kris Kristofferson, who was among the first to champion the erudite songs that allowed Prine to quit his day job as a mail carrier in Chicago.

— randy lewis, latimes.com, "John Prine is still singing about heaven and mortality — and sounding as vital as ever," 16 May 2018
In addition, Dudley had a contract with the federal government as a mail carrier.

— leah sottile, Longreads, "Bundyville Chapter Two: By a Thread," 16 May 2018
Kelly’s father worked as a mail carrier in Brighton.

— philip bump, BostonGlobe.com, "Immigration crucial part of Kelly’s family history," 12 May 2018
In March, several public parks were closed in Yonkers after a coyote bit eight residents, including a police officer and mail carrier, and killed a Yorkshire terrier.

— CBS News, "Off-duty police officer saves 5-year-old from coyote attack at playground," 30 Apr. 2018

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