a person who delivers mail
compound of mail + man
The mailman is like Santa Claus but comes every day and doesn't eat your cookies!
Mailman assumed a male workforce when the postal service formalized routes in the 19th-20th centuries, though women have worked in postal services since the early 1900s and comprise significant portions of modern postal workers.
Use 'mail carrier' or 'postal worker' regardless of gender.
["mail carrier","postal worker","letter carrier"]
Women postal workers, including prominent figures like Ruth Graves Wakefield's era mail carriers, were historically rendered invisible by gendered job titles despite essential contributions.
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