mail lady

plural mail ladies · alternative mail-lady · alternative maillady

1. informalA female postal worker.

   ...put up the flag for the mail lady.

   1994, W. A. Mathieu, The Musical Life

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   The mail lady just arrived...with 3 letters from you which I was cheered to get.

   1988, Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, page 142

   The mail lady enters, singing to herself, the proverbial bull in a china shop.

   1993, Claudia Allen, She's Always Liked the Girls Best: Lesbian Plays, page 142

   In the winter, you can hear the mail coming longe before you can see the mail lady...She'll come to the window, too, and watch the mail lady take our letters...out of the snow-covered mailbox

   1996, Rick Bass, “Almost Lake Hibernation”, in The Book of Yaak, page 17

   ...such an action might put the mail lady in danger. His first priority was protecting the mail lady.

   2003, Richard Barcalow, Marc McLemore, and Daniel Stiles, “Enter, the Mail Lady! 16:41”, in Hell's Ambrosia, page 55

   "That was close," I quip to the mail lady.

   2004, Michael Feldman, Something I Said?, page 10

   Synonyms: mailwoman, postwoman, post lady