Definitions
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- noun
Postman .
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Examples
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Let's hope the bosses don't succeed in chivying post people in country districts, where the postie is the front line welfare person, taking the news of everyone ot everyone else - their sadnesses, illnesses, joys and delights.
BBC Blog Network 2009
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A WEST Albury woman living with cancer has been forced to rely on buses and lifts from friends to get to her medical appointments after joyriders trashed her beloved "postie" bike.
The Border Mail 2009
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They differ also from the 'spae-wife,' who, manipulating the cup from which she has taken her morning draught of tea, looks at the various forms and shapes the leaves and dregs have taken, and deduces thence such simple horary prognostications as the name of the person from whom 'postie' will presently bring up the glen a letter or a parcel or a remittance of money; or as to whether she is likely to go a journey, or to hear news from across the sea, or to obtain a good price for the hose she has knitted or for the chickens or eggs she is sending to the store-keeper.
Tea-Cup Reading and Fortune-Telling by Tea Leaves, by a Highland Seer
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Your article G2, 29 April was illuminating in depicting the travails of the postie in the liberalised Dutch mail system.
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Some rejection letters are dishonest -- the form ones that say they value your story but due to … -- when the only reading done was by the postie reading the address on the envelope.
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It was only recently that I ordered the collected stories v. 1 through Amazon, only to be greeted by the sight of the postie heaving this doorstep-sized book through up the garden path.
GR3: The Jar by Ray Bradbury « In The Gloaming Podcasts 2010
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Alan Johnson, former postie and failed Labour Deputy Leadership candidate, presided over its passage.
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Alan Johnson, former postie and failed Labour Deputy Leadership candidate, presided over its passage.
Archive 2008-03-30 2008
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Firstly, I came home from yoga & a coffee with my mother to find a rather large box had been delivered by the postie (luckily, my builder friend was here wallpapering in my hallway, so it didn't get taken back to the PO substation).
Raiders of the Box Swap katelnorth 2008
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Between braving our savage hound and three tours to Afghanistan in four years, I reckon our postie Dave has earned a copy.
Prolagus commented on the word postie
Forget dogs, letterboxes now danger for posties.
May 20, 2010