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  • The service used to play only the traditional letter-carrier role during the lottery, delivering handwritten entry forms to Internet cafes, which entered data from the forms onto the State Department's official "electronic diversity visa entry form."

    Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia Miriam Jordan 2011

  • Associated Press Tracy and Rich Griffin go door to door in Las Vegas on Oct. 15 after taking leaves of absence from their letter-carrier jobs to work for their union and canvas for Nevada Democratic Sen. Harry Reid.

    Candidates Hustle to Get Out Nevada's Vote Brody Mullins 2010

  • He turned at the head of the steps to meet the letter-carrier on his afternoon round.

    Chapter 34 2010

  • Margo Martindale is Carol, a frumpy, middle-aged and faintly ridiculous Denver letter-carrier who tells her French class about one special day in her recent trip to Paris.

    'Descendants' Has the Genes of a Classic Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • The letter-carrier was termed Al – Faránik from the Pers.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • In this sequel to The Jolly Postman, a letter-carrier calls on well-known characters from fairy tales or nursery rhymes and gives them small items tucked into pockets in the book — Humpty-Dumpty gets a get-well jigsaw puzzle – before ending with a visit to Santa.

    2007 December 21 « One-Minute Book Reviews 2007

  • The mp3 of the song was emailed to me by Bob's fellow letter-carrier

    Ghost Postie 2006

  • I lived in daily fear the first year: but afterwards grew accustomed to my situation, as all great men will do, and wore my red coat as naturally as if I had been sent into the world only for the purpose of being a letter-carrier.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • A country letter-carrier would be sent in one direction in which there were but few letters to be delivered, the arrangement having originated probably at the request of some influential person, while in another direction there was no letter-carrier because no influential person had exerted himself.

    An Autobiography 2004

  • Wherever the man may live to whom a letter is addressed, it is the duty of some letter-carrier to take that letter to his house, sooner or later.

    An Autobiography 2004

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