How to Use letter carrier in a Sentence

letter carrier

noun
  • As for letter carriers who go door to door, new rules are quickly taking hold.
    — Sam Dolnick, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2020
  • An unknown male walked up to a letter carrier and shot him in the lower body, then fled.
    — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2020
  • For far too long, violent crime against letter carriers has been on the rise.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 19 July 2024
  • Karen Bass, daughter of a letter carrier, beat him by 7 points.
    — Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
  • Guardsmen bring in the mail, along with a letter carrier to deliver it.
    — New York Times, 6 May 2022
  • Gray took the letter carrier's vehicle keys, as well as her arrow key.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 31 July 2024
  • On this day, the 42-year-old letter carrier made one little boy very happy.
    — Fox News, 27 Nov. 2020
  • The truck continued to move, so the letter carrier peered around from the back of the truck, officials said.
    — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 4 Feb. 2025
  • His mother was a Catholic school teacher, and his father was a letter carrier.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, The Washington Examiner, 26 May 2025
  • Also, in areas where a letter carrier would just walk across front lawns, they were now forced to go up and down every driveway.
    — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2019
  • Mining the same theme is a Postal Babe letter carrier costume.
    — Adam Tschorn, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • To mail your ballot back, just put it in the mail like any other envelope, hand it to your letter carrier or take it to a post office.
    — Madalyn Amato, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2021
  • Each year, more than 6,000 letter carriers will be victims of dog attacks.
    — Matt Campbell, kansascity, 26 June 2018
  • Cordova then climbed onto the letter carrier and punched him repeatedly in the face and head.
    — Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 3 June 2026
  • This comes after the death of a Texas letter carrier who died June 20 in near triple-digit heat.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 28 June 2023
  • Camden retired after 40 years as a letter carrier – a job that was once a ticket to the middle class.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2020
  • As a result, the postmark date may not match the day a letter carrier collected the mail or a customer left it at a post office, the agency said.
    — Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 7 Jan. 2026
  • James took a job as a letter carrier after the war, and worked his way up to customer service director for Queens’ postal complex.
    — Stephanie Hanes, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Diaz started at the postal service as a letter carrier in 1996 in the Bronx.
    — Aya Elamroussi, CNN, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The union steward who spoke with the Tribune said working as a letter carrier connects you with the community in a unique way.
    — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Mar. 2022
  • My parents, a letter carrier and a teacher, would be unable to afford today the modest house in which my sisters and I were raised.
    — Matt Mahan, Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Brennan has spent her career at the Postal Service, starting 32 years ago as a letter carrier.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 18 May 2018
  • There’s a letter carrier called Penny Pal (Jenny Slate) that can rip people’s hearts out.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Enter Email Sign Up The spike in postal carrier robberies has put letter carriers on edge.
    — David Sharp, BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2023
  • Thieves have robbed letter carriers for the keys to steal mail from secure mail receptacles, the USPS says.
    — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 5 July 2023
  • The letter carrier suffered a broken nose and a fractured orbital socket, prosecutors said.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • As the letter carrier put their hands in the air, officials said, Demosthene and Lewis allegedly pulled on the chain attached to the key.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • Dozens of neighbors gathered on the street to watch the fire, which didn’t stop a letter carrier from making his rounds in the 2500 block of Dumaine.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, NOLA.com, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Prosecutors said Cordova punched the letter carrier in the face, knocking him to the ground, and then got on top of him and punched him several more times in the face and head.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
  • Court documents showed the attack left the letter carrier with a broken nose, a fractured orbital socket, and a permanent metal plate placed inside his face due to his injuries.
    — Kassia Bonesteel, CBS News, 3 June 2026

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