as in postman
a person who delivers mail
the sort of small Cornish village in which the local postie knows everyone's business
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And when your town is so small that everyone knows everyone else – Mjällby’s head coach is a school principal and its scout is a postman – your weaknesses can become your biggest strengths.—
Jamie Barton,
CNN Money,
21 Oct. 2025 -
In the aftermath of his breakout performance as Bishop in the film Juice, a young Tupac Shakur was plucked by director John Singleton to star as a postman named Lucky in Poetic Justice.—
Jeff Pearlman,
HollywoodReporter,
20 Oct. 2025
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The remailing program began in 1946, when the local postmaster and a businessman came up with Loveland’s stamp-collecting oddity.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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The name seemed to change spelling in 1931 to honor the original postmaster, Dennis Wheatley, from the 1870 founding.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
4 Dec. 2025
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The surviving kids begin to suspect something is up, but their attempts to appeal to this world’s sad excuses for adult supervision — a jolly mailman, a blank-faced nurse, and a talking train — just lead to more murders.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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Just before noon, Dallas Fire-Rescue crews were called to the 1200 block of Whispering Trail, where a mailman had called 911 to report a house fire.—
S.E. Jenkins,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2025
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“Postie.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postie. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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