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Origin of mailbag
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Last week’s episode of Amicus included a mailbag special in which Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern answered listeners’ burning questions about the law.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Editor’s note: Columnist Charlie Garcia answers his virtual mailbag every Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 14, 2025
Your letter may be published anonymously in the weekly “Dear Charlie” reader mailbag.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2025
The mailbag returns for its now bi-weekly appearance in the rejuvenated Sunday baseball section.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
In the overflow, police also recovered Moishe Walden’s clothes and mailbag.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
The article had pictures of Durham Prison, revealing that "the men who were found guilty of stealing a fortune in mailbags spend their week stitching them for nine shillings".
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
“It’s a bit of an adjustment going from having two secretaries waiting to take dictation from you to having to carry your own mailbags to the post office.”
From Washington Post ● Feb. 26, 2023
She slips something into one of the mailbags on the protagonist’s motorbike.
From New York Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
We have been swinging our mailbags at them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2022
Then they will ride out of the ghetto with the mailbags and get dropped off during the route, somewhere close to the market, then make their way to Tatarska Street from there.
From "The Light in Hidden Places" by Sharon Cameron
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