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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 shares select emails from his virtual mailbag every Friday.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 11, 2025
Your letter may be published anonymously in Friday’s “Dear Charlie” reader mailbag.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 9, 2025
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
Franz barked twice and snuffled his nose into the mailbag.
From "The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street" by Karina Yan Glaser
“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
They turned their pillowcases into mailbags full of letters.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
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