mail carrier vs postman

mail carrier

noun
  • A person employed to deliver mail. 

postman

noun
  • someone who delivers the post (mail) to, and/or collects the post from, residential or commercial addresses, or from public mailboxes. 

  • One of the two most experienced barristers in the Court of Exchequer, who have precedence in motions, so called from the place where he sits, the other of the two being the tubman. 

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