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mail carrier

noun

Definition of mail carrier

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a person who delivers mail we always give our faithful mail carrier a special card for Christmas

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Recent Examples of mail carrier In 2025, more than 5,200 dog attacks on postal service employees were recorded, a notable decrease from 2024, when 6,000 mail carriers were attacked, per the May 28 report released ahead of National Dog Bite Awareness Week, which runs through June 30. — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 1 June 2026 Orbegoso said the hospice nurse went to work on papers in her car a block over after leaving the house, when their mail carrier approached her. — Marissa Sulek, CBS News, 20 May 2026 The United States Postal Service does not operate on Memorial Day, which means no mail carriers will be on the streets and all post offices will be closed. — Emery Glover, Des Moines Register, 13 May 2026 Put the envelope in your mailbox, give it to your mail carrier or take it to the post office. — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for mail carrier

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The agency highlighted the experience of San Antonio letter carrier Fiona Hudson as an example of the dangers mail carriers can face on the job.

— Kelly McGreal, FOXNews.com, 5 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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Watkins will play Elaine, who carries the spirit of Promise as the town’s head librarian, postmaster, sheriff, veterinarian, chaplain, and aunt to Asher (Eikenberry).

— Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 June 2026
It was seized by the post office (as Rosset had expected) and duly declared obscene by the postmaster of the city of New York, a man named Robert Christenberry.

— Louis Menand, New Yorker, 1 June 2026

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The postman will stop you for a chat, and people will remember your kids’ names.

— Alli Forde, Travel + Leisure, 8 June 2026
Halfway through Diva, Jean-Jacques Beineix’s 1981 thriller about a young postman caught in a gangster plot after secretly recording a beautiful Black American opera soprano, the singer has a tough conversation with her agent.

— Matthew Ritchie, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026

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