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
Supervisors assign these keys — generally one per route — to mail carriers for use on over 300,000 delivery and collection routes each day, according to USPS.
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Stagecoach Mary was one of the baddest women in history, and a trailblazer in her own right, as the first Black woman to hold a position as a mail carrier in this country.
—Jaha Nailah Avery, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
Remarkably, the customer recognized the name and the address on the check as the same that his mail carrier, Muchimba, had used on a holiday card sent to residents on his mail route the previous December.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
An exchange between a lawn care worker and a mail carrier turned dangerous when a whirring weed whacker was used as a weapon, Texas investigators say.
—Mark Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
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Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
Stagecoach Mary was one of the baddest women in history, and a trailblazer in her own right, as the first Black woman to hold a position as a mail carrier in this country.
—Jaha Nailah Avery, Essence, 27 Mar. 2025
Remarkably, the customer recognized the name and the address on the check as the same that his mail carrier, Muchimba, had used on a holiday card sent to residents on his mail route the previous December.
—Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
An exchange between a lawn care worker and a mail carrier turned dangerous when a whirring weed whacker was used as a weapon, Texas investigators say.
—Mark Price, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mail carrier
Noun
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Back in 1994, months after the birth of his first son, Abernathy abandoned his dreams of becoming a comedic actor to start work as a letter carrier with the U.S. Postal Service.—
Hansi Lo Wang,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2025
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At the same time, there was a marked increase in letter carrier robberies—a 543% boost in letter carrier robberies between 2019 and 2022, with 64 letter carrier robberies in 2019 and 412 letter carrier robberies in 2022.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes,
19 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Back in March, former USPS postmaster Louis DeJoy stepped down following Trump’s comments about taking control of the USPS under the Department of Commerce.—
Elaine Mallon,
The Washington Examiner,
9 May 2025
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Five years ago, before the board nominated DeJoy as its 75th postmaster, stamps cost 50 cents.—
Jenny Goldsberry,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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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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That’s best demonstrated by a novel gameplay mechanic in the form of a camera that Indy acquires from a dissident postman called Ernesto.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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“Mail carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mail%20carrier. Accessed 22 May. 2025.
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