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
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
From April through July 2023, the five men sentenced — along with three others previously sentenced — all played individual roles in a bigger plan to rob mail carriers of their arrow keys, at times putting a gun to their heads to force them to hand over the key , according to court documents.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Thieves can steal mail by fishing or breaking into mail boxes with force, package theft and robbing mail carriers.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 16 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
From April through July 2023, the five men sentenced — along with three others previously sentenced — all played individual roles in a bigger plan to rob mail carriers of their arrow keys, at times putting a gun to their heads to force them to hand over the key , according to court documents.
—Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025
Thieves can steal mail by fishing or breaking into mail boxes with force, package theft and robbing mail carriers.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 28 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mail carrier
Noun
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Karen Bass, daughter of a letter carrier, beat him by 7 points.—
Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
8 Apr. 2025
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Since May 2023, the Postal Inspection Service has made over 1,200 arrests for letter carrier robberies and mail theft nationwide.—
Krystal Nurse,
USA TODAY,
14 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 first postage stamps Until 1847, people would take correspondence to the post office, where the postmaster would mark the postage in the upper right corner.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA TODAY,
27 Feb. 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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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 23 Apr. 2025.
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