Example Sentences

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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

A stop-the-clock postal pay deal aids the battle against inflation All across the country, mailmen gathered in their union offices, and as the clock approached midnight the tension began to rise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Buses were running and mailmen made their rounds.

From Time Magazine Archive