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mail carrier
noun
- a person, usually employed by the post office, who delivers mail.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of mail carrier1
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Example Sentences
But it's all right now—they'll throw the letters into the mail-carrier's bag—there'll be many of them—this is general letter day.
The mail carrier had let down the fence a few rods down the little road so as to avoid the drifts by crossing through a field.
The mail-carrier did freeze to death that day, but father kept from freezing by walking.
Yes, I found two; one a little mail-carrier, and the other a commissary sergeant, both of whom were scarcely able to stand alone.
He took the mail on horseback and remained as mail carrier for two years and nine months.
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