mail clerk

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English

Noun

mail clerk (plural mail clerks)

  1. a person who does clerical work in a post office.
  2. a person who handles mail for a business or or other establishment.
  3. (rail transport) a person who sorts mail in a mail car on a train.
    • 1959, Steam's Finest Hour, edited by David P. Morgan, Kalmbach Publishing Co., page 74 (photo caption):
      Flange-stacked and cone-nosed, a Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis J-3 4-8-4 gives the mail clerks a look at the trim Alco as she leads the Dixie Limited out of Smyrna, Ga.

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