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Origin of mailbag
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Editor’s note: Columnist Charlie Garcia shares select emails and online comments from his virtual mailbag each week.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
Editor’s note: Columnist Charlie Garcia shares select emails from his virtual mailbag each week.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 23, 2025
The mailbag returns for its now bi-weekly appearance in the rejuvenated Sunday baseball section.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
To show my appreciation, I’m going to sift through the January mailbag and take the person who sends me the best idea to dinner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 3, 2024
When we got inside the post office Mr. MacMahon hefted a box onto the shelf then looked in a mailbag that had buxton writ ’cross the front.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
“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
The museum contains a model of the Soviet submarine as well as clothing, ash trays and mailbags created to maintain the cover of the Glomar.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2022
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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