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a person who delivers mail
the postman comes at around nine every morning
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Hamid Khan Hussain Khel is one of the country’s 400 postmen, zipping around the capital on a motorcycle bearing Afghan Post’s jaunty blue and yellow.
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Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Today, 80% of avocados consumed in the US come from Mexico, and 95% of them bear the name of Hass, the California postman.
—thehustle.co, 5 Apr. 2024
According to industry lore, Rudolph Hass, a postman and amateur horticulturalist in Southern California, stumbled on a new variety in the late 1920s while trying to propagate a variety called Rideout.
—Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
That declaration, akin to the postman’s creed, is something any librarian would say.
—Diana Goetsch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
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Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
Today, 80% of avocados consumed in the US come from Mexico, and 95% of them bear the name of Hass, the California postman.
—thehustle.co, 5 Apr. 2024
According to industry lore, Rudolph Hass, a postman and amateur horticulturalist in Southern California, stumbled on a new variety in the late 1920s while trying to propagate a variety called Rideout.
—Viridiana Hernández Fernández, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2024
That declaration, akin to the postman’s creed, is something any librarian would say.
—Diana Goetsch, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2024
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“Postman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/postman. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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