mailman
邮递员,投递员,邮差,邮政员
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plural mail·men.
- : a person employed by the post office to deliver mail; mail carrier.
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He has been our mailman for years, but his workday and mine overlapped and I rarely saw him.
As one veteran of the Swiss banking giant tells Fortune, “If you had worked for UBS in those days, the mailman would grumble at you.”
My mailman, David, is the sunny-faced sort who brightens my block each afternoon, no matter the weather, with a glowing smile.
“He was my personal mailman,” says Mychal McNicholas of Rockaway.
He was a letter carrier unlike any other, or perhaps exactly like the iconic mailman of another era.
The red mailman may be in the spring of his political life, but he already knows how to deliver the message of discontent.
About 1910, however, a mailman was provided by the post office, though he still worked under the charge of the Chief Librarian.
I am very glad I wish Edward was here, but the mailman may bring me a letter from him this morning.
I knew that in all probability we should have no visitors for ten or eleven days until the mailman came.
“Here the mailman comes at last,” she sighed in relief, as she saw the man turn in at the house next door.
"'Tis Her Majesty's mail, b'y," Billy could hear the mailman say.