postal worker

[pohs-tl wur-ker]

noun

1. a person employed by a government postal system to sort, transport, or deliver mail, or to work in a customer service capacity at the counter of a post office.

Word History and Origins

Origin of postal worker¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

An operation by police started after a postal worker reported suspicious activity and more than 20 uncollected parcels were seized at a sorting office.

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Det Con Meyrick said there were messages from an unidentified person suggesting they should pay a postal worker £5,000 to recover the cannabis from the Barry depot.

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Mohammed Hussain was arrested at his home in Ninian Park Road in Cardiff where police found a packet of cannabis, money and a phone, and empty cannabis packages in a car, which had previously been identified by a postal worker.

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According to the Cabinet Office's figures, only 4% of recipients of "higher" awards had grown up in a "lower socio-economic" household - defined as parents working in jobs such as delivery driver, postal worker, security guard and retail staff - accounting for almost 40% of the workforce.

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It turned out he was a postal worker delivering mail-in ballots, but the video was seen more than five million times.

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