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
Once home to carpenters, electricians and mail carriers, property values have skyrocketed over the intervening decades, especially as owners have renovated the once-small houses to add more bedrooms and bathrooms.
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Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Just like our real mail carriers, Mr. ZIP is a community hero.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 8 Feb. 2025
In early January 2025, for example, a Massachusetts mail carrier was able to save a house from burning by quickly extinguishing a fire.
—Jena Martin, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
The group of volunteers eventually included a mail carrier, friends and a pair of tourists visiting from Chicago who saw people sorting clothes on the sidewalk that Friday evening and returned the next morning to help.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 16 Jan. 2025
Just like our real mail carriers, Mr. ZIP is a community hero.
—Sari Hitchins, Parents, 8 Feb. 2025
In early January 2025, for example, a Massachusetts mail carrier was able to save a house from burning by quickly extinguishing a fire.
—Jena Martin, The Conversation, 28 Jan. 2025
The group of volunteers eventually included a mail carrier, friends and a pair of tourists visiting from Chicago who saw people sorting clothes on the sidewalk that Friday evening and returned the next morning to help.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mail carrier
Noun
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There’s a letter carrier called Penny Pal (Jenny Slate) that can rip people’s hearts out.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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Several letter carriers—such as John L. LeFlore and Westley W. Law—were activists for desegregation and other civil rights and held onto their jobs even though they were challenged.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
Noun
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In 1835, an anti-abolition mob raided the Charleston, South Carolina, post office and, with the help of the city postmaster, burned bundles of abolitionist newspapers.—
Sarah Prager,
JSTOR Daily,
12 Mar. 2025
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The federal government was small by modern standards, but President Jackson’s appointment of loyalists as federal land agents and postmasters meant that political appointees had power to allocate lucrative land sales in the frontier and distribute partisan newspapers.—
Yong Kwon / Made by History,
TIME,
7 Mar. 2025
Noun
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James Blackledge, a 33-year-old postman in Bristol, England, has made sacrifices too.—
Rob Picheta,
CNN,
24 Mar. 2025
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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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“Mail carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mail%20carrier. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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