How To Use Postman In A Sentence
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He worked as a shelf-stacker and eventually a postman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Photo number two shows local postman Owen McDonald aboard his horse and cart driving up Ballymanus Terrace.
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The postman brought me a large package.
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What happens if someone writes the wrong address on an envelope, or the postman delivers the letter to the wrong door?
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Look whether the postman has been yet.
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This morning the only activity was a lone postman making his way along the street, and a couple of residents who came out to chat to police officers manning the cordon.
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No one is allowed into her home and the only person she ever sees is the postman delivering her letters.
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Well, our smiling postman recently delivered a letter to me that had my maiden name on it.
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Geraldine's initial letter had no proper address on it and they owe their reunion to the local postman who recognised the name and knew the door number.
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If our mail arrived late we were advised this was due to staff shortages or holidays and the postman had to do another round first.
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I have been the village postman in Troutbeck for 18 years and during that time have witnessed dramatic changes in the availability of reasonable houses to rent or buy.
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Receiving a look from the watchman the gatekeeper knew the postman felt the same.
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Most Americans will have to wait until the end of the month before the postman delivers the mysterious objects of desire.
Times, Sunday Times
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I could be doing the sun coffee time cross word, cutting my toenails, making balls out of elastic bands the postman drops outside my gaff everyday.
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All, and I do mean all, this veteran postman is providing in 20 minutes of play these days is a handful of rebounds.
USATODAY.com - Running (and screening and defending) on empty
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Imagine opening your front door to find a postman lugging boxes and boxes of Britain's funniest books up your garden path.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postman is getting more and more fed up with this.
Sunday Confessions on Monday
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The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names.
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Activism should be permitted to be more than solely being a postman/postwoman, or producer of literature.
Archive 2007-01-01
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As far as I know our inward mail has been lost only once - when the delivery postman was robbed in broad daylight and his mailbag stolen by hopheads.
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In the space of a few weeks in March, a number of incidents occurred including youths attacking a postman as he collected mail from the post box in the centre.
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The former postman from The Hague was panicking like he had just been chased up a garden path by a rabid dog.
The Sun
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I wanted to make a contemporary B-movie with a nod to films like The Honeymoon Killers or The Postman Always Rings Twice.
George Heymont: Two Indian Indie Gems: The Blue Tower and Third Person Singular Number
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Try not to anxiously stalk the postman or bite your nails down to the quick.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postman simply fines the person to whom the unstamped letter has been sent - otherwise he will not hand over the letter.
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Her father was a postman and her mother worked as an assistant in a school canteen.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the office she stood, a middle-aged lady (close on two-and-forty years old) bonnetless and capless, amid a posse of young clerks: the telegraph operator, the messenger, the indoor clerk, the postman: to whom she was an object of unending curiosity.
Ultima Thule
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Mandela also invited Lombard, stationed at the Yeoville depot and who has been a pedal-pushing postman for 33 years, to attend a braaivleis with him.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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One day the postman who crosses the fjeld once a month came on me just as I had shouted.
Look Back on Happiness
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He describes cycling as a democratiser, open to the richest and the poorest, 'the pop star to the postman'.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my horrible desire to "compo" everything, the very postman becomes my enemy because he brings no letter from you; and, in short, I don't see what's to become of me unless I hear from you to-morrow, which I have not the least expectation of doing.
The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1 (of 3), 1833-1856
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The postman argued away his misdelivery of the mail.
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One morning I was dressed in my black negligee when the postman called with a registered letter.
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It's a rather chirpy little guitar-pop song with a melody that is strangely reminiscent of the Postman Pat theme tune.
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I used to be a postman but left to find a better job as normal people do i also "scabbed" and crossed the pathetic picket line.....
Heads must roll at the Royal Mail
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Sir, The postman has just called with a parcel.
Times, Sunday Times
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Nelson Mandela must occasionally wonder if his real birthplace is not actually somewhere in west central Scotland as the postman brings the puzzled old freedom fighter yet another sackful of certificates, baubles and doctorates from right honourable and worshipful baillies, provosts and presiding officers.
All hail the Robert Burns of our day | Kevin McKenna
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I put a labelled dustbin outside the gate for the mail, to prevent the postman having to drive along the farm road.
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Well, that's usually what it feels like, but not when the postman is from TNT.
Presents for myself
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The postman would deliver mail to the car door.
Times, Sunday Times
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While Nicholson, the berk, has always relished the Postman gossip, Sutherland has staunchly denied the rumours and defended Christie.
Geoff Boycott's sensitive side… it's so well hidden | Barbara Ellen
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Taking copious notes, he paced possible routes uphill before concluding that a postman would face deadly peril if he attempted to do the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postman will shortly be delivering a stack of tax credit forms to the population of Britain.
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The postman rang the bell because he had a parcel / package to deliver.
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She also loved to receive letters and looked forward to the arrival of the postman or postwoman on a daily basis.
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One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Our dog went at the postman.
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“Our snow was not only shaken from whitewash buckets down the sky, it came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees; snow grew overnight on the roofs of the houses like a pure and grandfather moss, minutely white-ivied the walls and settled on the postman, opening the gate, like dumb, number thunderstorm of white, torn Christmas cards.”
Happy Holidays From the Hoary Hacks at Calbuzz
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The machines sort mail down to the exact route walked by the postman or woman on their round.
Times, Sunday Times
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She also loved to receive letters and looked forward to the arrival of the postman or postwoman on a daily basis.
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Although the postman changed every few years the custom carried on - until one of them was spotted lingering over his cuppa for 10 minutes last Wednesday.
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The previous Saturday a postman reported his mailbag had been stolen at 8.45 am in Forty Acres Road.
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‘I began taking a closer look at the postman, the coalman and the chimneysweep,’ joked Louis.
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The postman, aware that he was the cynosure of all eyes, would strut to the centre of the village and call out names of those whose letters he had brought.
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The postman leaves the place mechanically dropping the letters into the boxes, which are collected by the residents leisurely, sometimes a day or two later.
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We never had this problem whenever the postman delivered our letters.
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I remembered a particular story about a postman who was a murderer.
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It is never difficult to forward mail in the north, for every "musher" is a postman.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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Besides, now that we mostly shop online a happy postman is the key to life.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether it be buckle-front carry-alls or laid-back hip swingers just like a postman bag, casual luxe for this season is truly defined.
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Her father was a postman and her mother worked as an assistant in a school canteen.
Times, Sunday Times
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But what we watch is a medium which presents information in a form that renders it simplistic, nonsubstantive, nonhistorical and noncontextual," writes Postman.
John W. Whitehead: Gods Made in Our Image: Politicians As Entertainers
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There, with his wife, he lives an idyllic, if somewhat solitary life, writing and receiving so much fan-mail that a special postman is hired to hand-deliver his letters, which he does on a bicycle.
Donna Perlmutter: Postino and Figaro: Underclass Heroes Who Usher in L.A. Opera's 25th Season
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Try not to anxiously stalk the postman or bite your nails down to the quick.
Times, Sunday Times
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And, special delivery: The postman's bride ... two and a half years late.
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I'm on a first-name basis with the postman," confesses Thompson, 27, a college student and mother of two boys in Odessa, Texas.
Sign of the times: Going swapping, not shopping
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But skimp the ordinary postage and the postman'll beat a path to your door to recover that outstanding penny.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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Postman prefers Huxley to Orwell and argues that there is no need for Big Brother to conceal anything from citizens whom technological diversion has largely narcotized.
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Jennifer, tipping the postman is a good idea. geri
Alternatives to the Mexican Postal Service
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The recycling box has a home and parcels can be left by the postman when we are out.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is important to become a professional sales person rather than a postman or delivery boy or a traditional sales man.
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The postman emerged from his van soaked to the skin.
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They are half afraid to open the door to the postman should he arrive with another registered letter.
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The amazing thing about his run was the fact that he had a very unsuspicious start to the run and then, in true postman style, stopped to chat several groups of spectators on the way.
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Maybe Tess can help me forget the 20 years I lived in the north-west, where my cultural highlights were collecting the rubber bands the postman left to make into a large, pointless ball, attaching strands of a Ski yoghurt pot to the back wheel of my emerald green foldaway bike so it made a "hddhdhdhdhd" sound as I rode it, and eating a pomegranate very slowly with a drawing pin.
TV Greats: Our Favourites From The North – Grace Dent's TV OD
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My dad's a postman and he delivers letters from all over the world.
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Kohl-Welles claim on Postman's blog of not knowing what was going on is remindful of Ashlee Simpson blowing her spot on "Saturday Night Live" and blaming her band.
Sound Politics: Election reform proposals, with LBJ and Stalin smiling on
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Today he is a successful actor who, after window cleaning, tried his hand at being a holiday rep in Majorca, a postman, selling papers, a labourer and tarring roads - all in Northern Ireland.
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Postman Dave Clark loves his local football team so much he officially changed his name to Swindon Town Dave.
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The postman flopped his heavy bag down for a short rest.
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After a tiring morning I come home and find that my postman had delivered my recent order from Amazon.
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In the last two weeks, we've watched two of the classic film noir pictures: Double Indemnity and The Postman Always Rings Twice.
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The postman tried to crush the packet through the letter-box.
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There is not a postman or milkman alive who has not been at the receiving end of this sort of unwanted attention.
THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
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He served for various lengths of time as a postman and a telephonist and also drove a bus in the district.
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Slamming the door as the postman was just starting to exchange pleasantries about the weather, I tore open the small padded envelope.
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The postman has just delivered a package for you.
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They are half afraid to open the door to the postman should he arrive with another registered letter.
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A postman has appeared in court charged with sending letters containing white powder and planting a hoax bomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have a most jolly fellow for a postman and here of late I've been confounding and delighting him.
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The opera retains much of the film's dialogue while adding love music for Neruda and his wife, Matilde (Cristina Gallardo-Domas, who is Chilean, looking and sounding exquisite); a buffo-style tenor duet for Neruda and the simple postman Mario (Charles Castronovo), who gradually comes to worship him; and a couple of Neruda's poems, which make perfect arias.
Domingo's tenor lifts respectable, but too literal, 'Il Postino' by Daniel Catán
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A cornet player like her husband and fellow band member Ted, known as the singing postman, her son Mike is now in the band, playing euphonium.
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One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman.
Times, Sunday Times
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Mail for residents at the complex is normally left in the reception by a delivery driver for a postman to collect and deliver.
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Taking copious notes, he paced possible routes uphill before concluding that a postman would face deadly peril if he attempted to do the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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There, he dropped the package into one of the postboxes and grinned with satisfaction when he imagined a confused postman finding it.
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New York police, but have you inquired of the postman in a certain district whether he can recall the postmark on any of the letters he delivered to Mr. Adams?
The Circular Study
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Anatomy of a Song When the Marvelettes' "Please Mr. Postman" became Motown's first No. 1 pop hit 50 years ago next month, no one at the label expected they would be the group to do it.
Is There a Letter in Your Bag For Me?
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Son of a postman in a remote village of Béarn, in the borderlands with Spain, his trajectory bears many similarities to that of Raymond Williams, son of a railwayman in the marches of Wales, who was aware of the kinship between them.
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We remain determined to guide the two of them through the cultural desert that is modern childhood but since they grew out of Postman Pat all the entertainment aimed at them seems so empty of real value.
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One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman.
Times, Sunday Times
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All human experience thrilled her; the choreman, the dressmaker, the postman, the caller; one and all, she hung on their words.
Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910
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How often are moments of destiny delivered by the postman?
Times, Sunday Times
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Gavin Jowitt for The Wall Street Journal Some of the older locals use the Postman to get around, but the standard form of transportation for people living along the Hawkesbury is a "tinnie.
Slow Boat to Spencer
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The problem arose after the postman delivering the postal votes demanded payment for them.
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Based on the Chinese postman problem solving ideas, the solving step of the patrol routes is given by application of Hungary method.
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Imagine opening your front door to find a postman lugging boxes and boxes of Britain's funniest books up your garden path.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said: 'In this case we have appealed to the owner to keep their pet under control when the postman calls.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I said, the big thing people forget about Nigella is that she's a big famous glamorous TV star from a very well-connected, rich and high-profile family - I sincerely doubt that a Nigella lookalike whose dad was a postman and who worked in a shop would come within light years of landing a Saatchi and Saatchi postboy.
Fat Is A Fantasist Issue
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The postman is used to delivering mysterious parcels, packets and letters to the old ranch house, mostly from faraway places with strange sounding names.
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The pouches are regularly used to store bags of mail until a postman collects them for delivery to nearby homes.
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If your hound's gnashers are white unto glowing then at least the postman is in for a healthier bite.
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THE postman who delivers to this address really earns his stripes - it's home to two young tigers.
The Sun
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Obviously the postman preferred the short climb to the longer haul up the access road.
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Taking copious notes, he paced possible routes uphill before concluding that a postman would face deadly peril if he attempted to do the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postman is forced to meet the addressee only when registered posts or money orders are delivered.
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Asked to give a guarantee that he would not be leading Labour on polling day, the smiling former postman chose to dodge the question.
Times, Sunday Times
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The former postman from The Hague was panicking like he had just been chased up a garden path by a rabid dog.
The Sun
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He had laid off some heavy bets recently and his meagre earnings as a postman would not cover them.
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Ah, look - here's the postman.
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When the postman delivered them just now, I was made up.
The Sun
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He said he had compiled his notebook and recorded the admission that the appellant had hit the postman at 7.45 pm that night.
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It is like praising the postman for delivering the mail.
Times, Sunday Times
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Thirdly, "the Postman", as a David Brin novel, is extraordinary and would I think appeal strongly to lots of people here; if Terry Pratchett wasn't funny but retained all his other gifts and worldview, and was actually a sly bit _more_ subversive, it's something he could write.
Catcher in the Rye, catchers in the cornfields
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In his grandpa jeans, Nick Clegg looks like a bandy-legged postman who has just got the sack.
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He was employed as a delivery postman by the Post Office the respondents.
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A postman has appeared in court charged with sending letters containing white powder and planting a hoax bomb.
Times, Sunday Times
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The postman brought me a large package.
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Normally, customs will calculate the charges due at the point of entry in Ireland, and then it is left up to the postman or courier to collect the money.
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To try to preserve secrecy, he told one woman he was a postman called Brian.
Times, Sunday Times
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But skimp the ordinary postage and the postman'll beat a path to your door to recover that outstanding penny.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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When he complained, he claimed one postman told him delivery of letters to homes in his street was a ‘goodwill’ service, as it depended on staff working overtime.
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Why does the postman deliver my junk mail to my neighbours house but always delivers the bills correctly?
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The postman hasn’t delivered our mail since we returned from Florida, so apparently I’ll have to make a trip to the post office and pick it up (since they won’t answer the phone!!) And now this huge snowstorm is coming, foiling my plans for Friday, which included going back to the office, getting the dogs haircuts, and rehearsing with students for a music competition on Saturday.
2008 January « Becca’s Byline
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The postman ran away with the dog nipping at his heel.
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One of the two armed men who ambushed the prison van was dressed as a postman.
Times, Sunday Times
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A postman's wages are 180 per week.
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the postman's rounds
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The recycling box has a home and parcels can be left by the postman when we are out.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 52-year-old former postman from Lancaster has a degenerative brain disease that will one day leave him unable to move or speak.
Times, Sunday Times
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The thief snatched the van's keys from a postman at 9.45 am in Wimborne Avenue, St Paul's Cray.
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A postman's wages are 180 per week.
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One morning I was dressed in my black negligee when the postman called with a registered letter.
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I pressed my nose to the window to watch our new postman trudging up the hill, head down against the wind and rain.
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Even the poor postman was baffled when he came to collect the post only to discover that the postbox had apparently disappeared into thin air.
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A couple of weeks ago the postman rang the doorbell early on a Saturday morning.
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The postman put a bundle of letters through the letter box.
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What happens if someone writes the wrong address on an envelope, or the postman delivers the letter to the wrong door?
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I guarantee the postman will be calling soon.
The Sun
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I remembered a particular story about a postman who was a murderer.
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The postman's bag was still crammed full of letters, but minus a number of registered parcels which contained the foreign currencies.
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I was on the point of leaving when the postman called bearing an invoice from the bicycle suppliers.
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Try not to anxiously stalk the postman or bite your nails down to the quick.
Times, Sunday Times
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I wasn't sure what Martinis were but they were something like the stuff called poteen that was given to special visitors like the priest or to the postman at Christmas.
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The postman rang the bell because he had a parcel / package to deliver.
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The postman was mixed up, so he delivered the package to the wrong house.
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There is not a postman or milkman alive who has not been at the receiving end of this sort of unwanted attention.
THE DOG LISTENER: Learning the Language of your Best Friend
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Before going on his 'walk', he would sort the mail delivered by horse and cart from Leominster into a pile for each postman and sub-office.
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The postman was mixed up, so he delivered the package to the wrong house.
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A close friend of the former postman said: 'There are two women he is extremely fond of.
The Sun
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That little red box at the end of the wall is the post box where the village postman collects (twice each day) all our outgoing mail.
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But hopes of the Ditcheat postman delivering a second 1 million look highly unlikely.
The Sun
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The postman rang the bell because he had a parcel / package to deliver.
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The unexpected thrill of the reminder (something I blame on my father, who appeared to appreciate the postman delivering red letters rather too much) is important to me.
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The postman was mixed up, so he delivered the package to the wrong house.
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This morning, 4 February, the postman delivered an airmail bank statement with postmarks.
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directions" torn from the parcel by Railway borne, announced by the postman who knocked in the morn, awaking the _gourmand_ all forlorn, who dreamed of the table where diners sat, served by the cooking-wench florid and fat of the dame with the crumpled hat, wife of the porter who "found" the "birds" in the Babel where lost was the label addressed to the friend who expected the Grouse that _Jack_ shot!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 26, 1891
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He had laid off some heavy bets recently and his meagre earnings as a postman would not cover them.
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Seeing off the postman is a high point in an affenpinscher's daily routine that is hard to suppress.
