expressmann.
/ɛkˈsprɛsmən/ A man employed in receiving and delivering parcels, etc.; esp. an employee of one of the U.S. express companies.
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1847 H. D. Thoreau Let. 29 Dec. in Corr. (1958) 201 Munroe..tells the express man that all is right.
1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 644 The ‘expressman’ is only an improvement upon the ‘common carrier’.
1884 A. Wainwright in Harper's Mag. July 270/1 We stand in a crowd of..hack-drivers and expressmen on the New York side.
1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 229/2 William F. Harnden was the first expressman, and he began his business in 1837.
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