post-office clerk

post-office clerk
A federal employee in the mail service, his duties, performed in a post office, consisting in handling, distributing, and delivering mail, and in transacting with patrons of his office such business as they may have in reference to the mails and the office.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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