What's the difference between mailman and postie?

Mailman


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) That’s the way the mailman and Mrs Kasich lived,” he said of his parents, adding that their death sent him “into a black hole with just a little pin prick of light”.
  • (2) Dr Panda’s Postman (£1.79) Another appearance for that moonlighting doctor, this time in Dr Panda’s Postman (or Mailman, as it’s known in the US).
  • (3) Whether you’re the CEO of a Fortune 500 company or you’re a mailman or you’re homeless, this affects you.
  • (4) MailMinder is completely compatible with the existing unmodified DHCP electronic mail program, Mailman.
  • (5) Such talk baffles many white people, even Ron Goff, 65, a retired mailman who lives just five minutes away amid black neighbours he considers friends.
  • (6) That means Republicans are “between a rock and a hard place”, according to Professor Michael Sparer , chair of health policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health.
  • (7) Dr Jeffrey L Shaman, associate professor of environmental health sciences at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Heath, was part of the project that forecast the outbreak would be contained in 12 to 18 months.
  • (8) "Mayor Bloomberg has transformed in a very visionary way the approaches that a city should take to secure the health of its population," said Linda Fried, dean of Columbia University's Mailman school of public health.
  • (9) Certain misrepresentations of our theory of self-stimulatory behavior by Lewis, Baumeister, and Mailman (1987) are corrected and several questions raised by the commentators are answered.
  • (10) During the primaries, John Kasich emphasized that his father was a mailman.

Postie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The contributing elements to boundaries of the round window niche are superiorly the tegmen fossula fenestra rotunda (roof support), inferiorly the fustis (depth) and area concamerata, anteriorly the sustentaculum (support) and postis anterior (anterior pillar), and posteriorly the postis posterior (posterior pillar) and the subiculum (underlying supporting structure).
  • (2) This morning's meeting was with Gareth, a Postie nicknamed after Corporal Pike from Dad's Army."
  • (3) She’d be really proud.” He added: “It wasn’t that long ago I was a postie and playing for St Ives.
  • (4) In a shrinking letters market having two posties following each other up the same garden path is inefficient.
  • (5) Are we really going to have "multiple posties" on UK streets?
  • (6) So don’t complain about the posties, train drivers, cabin crews and baggage handlers – they’re only doing what we all should in 2017.

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