postal worker

American  

[pohs-tl wur-ker] / ˈpoʊs tl ˌwɜr kər /

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.

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Etymology

Origin of postal worker

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

His father, a postal worker, gave him a sense of the absurd.

From The Wall Street Journal

A postal worker who delivered mail in the afternoon said she has only ever met one person at the home, the owner.

From The Wall Street Journal

“A good stage manager is swift and efficient as a London postal worker, and I have no time to waste.”

From Literature

“Oh, how glorious to be a postal worker!” she thought as she spread her treasures across the ottoman, so as to have the satisfaction of seeing them all at once.

From Literature

The series follows two board-gaming friends in their thirties - Leonard, a ghost writer of children's encyclopaedias, and Hungry Paul, a part-time postal worker who still lives at home.

From BBC