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• n  a man who delivers the mail

• A postman who takes a walk on his holiday is a joke.
• Burly, six-foot Henry Ruthvin Smith is one postman who does not go walking on his holidays.
• She lost her mother to cancer when she was just 12; her father, Jos, had to bring up his children on a postman's salary.

• mailman
• mail carrier
• letter carrier
• carrier

News & Articles

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• World's oldest person dies in Japan, aged 116
  The world's oldest person has died in Japan, aged 116 -- just days after the passing of a Chinese woman with a rival claim to the title. Jiroemon Kimura, a former postman, died of natural causes in hospital in his hometown of Kyotango, western Japan, in the early hours of Wednesday, city officials told CNN. In December, Kimura had been recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest ...
  June 12, 2013 - KSAT San Antonio

Quotes

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• Lucy Fleming in International Herald Tribune
  I can remember Uncle Ian's books being delivered wrapped in brown paper and string by a postman on a bicycle,niece Lucy Fleming said as she stood on the destroyer's gunmetal-gray deck. "The Royal Navy has upped the ante a little."
• Sharman Joshi in Hindustan Times
  Throwing light on his character, Sharman said: "My character's name is Raju Rastogi. He is brilliant at what he does which is engineering. He comes from a very humble background as his father is a postman. Because he is doing well academically they...
• Andre Arthur in Ottawa Citizen
  If you choose a hobby, you must choose it far away from your job,Arthur said. "The postman doesn't take a walk on Saturdays. You've got to do something different. I've always enjoyed driving. I've always enjoyed the high road. So now they...