mail carrier

noun

Examples of mail carrier in a Sentence

we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas
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Clematis are perfect along fences, climbing up a trellis, or delighting your mail carrier at the mailbox. Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 3 May 2025 Five men were recently sentenced in an intricate conspiracy to rob mail carriers in Virginia at gunpoint, federal prosecutors said. Natalie Demaree, Miami Herald, 28 Mar. 2025 Traditionally, mail carriers work in rain, hail, or shine, in freezing temperatures, and blistering heat waves. Kendall Malinchock, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025 Some mail carriers even still use mules or horses to deliver to Supai, Arizona, a remote Havasupai tribal village in the Grand Canyon of Arizona, or float planes to serve fishing villages off the Alaskan coast. Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 7 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for mail carrier

Word History

First Known Use

1788, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of mail carrier was in 1788

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“Mail carrier.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mail%20carrier. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.

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