What does post-lady mean?

post-lady

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.83 in modern English

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"[M]y husband delivered a card to the local post-lady who has just had a baby."
"Whether it’s a post-lady’s leg, a dead badger, or a particularly sexy Pug that your dog wants to make sweet love to, do not let this happen."
"It was only down to a local village post-lady that he survived. She came across a letter to the authorities from a villager denouncing him as a Jew and she destroyed it."

post-ladies (plural)

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