mail-carrier

plural mail-carriers

1. alternativeAlternative form of mail carrier.

   At Needles, I found the tall mail-carrier at the depot looking for me.

   1951, Minnie Braithwaite Jenkins, ““Teacher—Yes””, in Girl from Williamsburg, Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, part III (At Old Fort Mohave), page 259

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   But, have not the mail-carriers carried the printers’ papers, for theſe ſeven years paſt, without aſking one ſhilling more for ſo doing?

   1792 January, Philanthropos [pseudonym], “From the Maryland Journal. On the proposed TAX on NEWSPAPERS.”, in National Gazette, volume I, number 29, published 6 February 1792, page 116, column 3

   Post offices would host electric-vehicle charging stations, for instance, and mail-carriers could be asked to check in on vulnerable residents along their routes.

   2019 September 25, The Canadian Press, “Trudeau, Scheer exchange fire in climate fight”, in Red Deer Advocate, page 29, column 4