as in mail carrier
a person who delivers mail
we like to leave a little gift in the mailbox around Christmas for our letter carrier
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Recent Examples of letter carrier
My parents, a letter carrier and a teacher, would be unable to afford today the modest house in which my sisters and I were raised.
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Matt Mahan, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
This means that the postmark date won’t necessarily match the date when the mail was dropped off at a retail location or collected by a letter carrier, USPS officials said.
—Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2026
As a result, the postmark date may not match the day a letter carrier collected the mail or a customer left it at a post office, the agency said.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
As of 2024, arrests in connection with robbing letter carriers were up 73%, and between 2019 and 2022, letter carrier robberies increased sixfold, and high-volume mailbox theft increased 87%, according to the Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service.
—James Herrera Monterey Daily Herald, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2025
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Matt Mahan, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
This means that the postmark date won’t necessarily match the date when the mail was dropped off at a retail location or collected by a letter carrier, USPS officials said.
—Rashad Alexander, Kansas City Star, 22 Jan. 2026
As a result, the postmark date may not match the day a letter carrier collected the mail or a customer left it at a post office, the agency said.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
As of 2024, arrests in connection with robbing letter carriers were up 73%, and between 2019 and 2022, letter carrier robberies increased sixfold, and high-volume mailbox theft increased 87%, according to the Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service.
—James Herrera Monterey Daily Herald, Arkansas Online, 28 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for letter carrier
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In 2025, more than 5,200 dog attacks on postal service employees were recorded, a notable decrease from 2024, when 6,000 mail carriers were attacked, per the May 28 report released ahead of National Dog Bite Awareness Week, which runs through June 30.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
1 June 2026
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Orbegoso said the hospice nurse went to work on papers in her car a block over after leaving the house, when their mail carrier approached her.—
Marissa Sulek,
CBS News,
20 May 2026
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Grove appealed on First Amendment grounds, and a federal court reversed the postmaster’s ruling.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
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Authorities initially looked into a truck driver and a postmaster, but both were dead ends.—
Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
1 June 2026
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“Letter carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/letter%20carrier. Accessed 6 Jun. 2026.
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