as in postmaster
a person who delivers mail the postman comes at around nine every morning

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Recent Examples of postman James Blackledge, a 33-year-old postman in Bristol, England, has made sacrifices too. Rob Picheta, CNN, 24 Mar. 2025 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 That’s so nice!), and Shep, in turn, runs and scares the annoying postman (Shep! Alice Burton, Vulture, 2 Feb. 2025 Cruz was indicted Thursday for second-degree murder in the 2:30 p.m. stabbing of the 36-year-old postman at Joe’s Grocery, on Lenox Rd. Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for postman
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Noun
  • McClatchy News reached out to her attorney May 27 and was awaiting a response. LeBlanc, 48, a longtime postal service employee, worked as Seekonk Post Office’s postmaster from late 2023 to the beginning of 2025, prosecutors said.
    Sara Schilling, Miami Herald, 28 May 2025
  • Reynolds retired as postmaster of the Yosemite post office in 2023 after a 44-year USPS career in and near the national park.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2025
Noun
  • Thankfully, the mailman came shortly after and noticed the dog outside alone.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 June 2025
  • What government services will operate on Juneteenth? Don’t expect to see your mailman delivering on Juneteenth.
    Joseph Hernandez, Kansas City Star, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • His mail carrier is sympathetic, advising him to hire someone to handle the paper blizzard.
    Belinda Luscombe, Time, 1 July 2025
  • In Dallas, a mail carrier died after collapsing on his route earlier this month as local temperatures hovered in the 90s, according to CBS News Texas.
    Alain Sherter, CBS News, 30 June 2025

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“Postman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postman. Accessed 10 Jul. 2025.

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