mailman
Americannoun
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mailmen
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noun
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Origin of mailman
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Postal authorities have not identified the mailman in the video.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
All my countless calls to Social Security, with one question they could never answer, were resolved by the mailman today.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 9, 2026
But until a friend mentioned Hanwha’s hiring spree this spring, Phillips had never considered a future in the industry, having previously worked as a mailman and a commercial landscaper.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 10, 2025
In the mid-1960s, Louvenia Jenkins posed a question to her mailman: Do any Black people live in Pacific Palisades?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 27, 2025
When the mailman opened the box, Fly leapt out with a frantic croak.
From "Wishtree" by Katherine Applegate
It requires a network of processing centers, post offices, layers of management, truck fleets, and a huge force of mailmen and women to drop those credit card offers in your mailbox every afternoon.
From Slate ● Mar. 29, 2018
Still, it seems fair to say that Jody-ness is not equally distributed among the world’s milkmen and mailmen: There are Jodys, and there are Jodys.
From Slate ● Mar. 10, 2016
A night-shift postal employee, he heard mailmen were now scared to deliver mail on the street.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2016
Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors.
From Time Magazine Archive
Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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