Mail Car (Noun)
Meaning
A railway car in which mail is transported and sorted.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The postal service owns a fleet of mail cars that are specially designed for efficient mail sorting on the go.
- In the mail car, clerks sat at wooden counters, sorting and sifting through mountains of envelopes and packages.
- Each morning, a mail car attached to the eastbound train chugged into the station, ready to take on a fresh load of outgoing mail.
- Since it was often cold and dirty, mail car work was never anyone's dream job.
- Late one evening, an investigation found evidence that suggested thieves had indeed accessed a secure area by way of a deserted mail car left in an abandoned lot for repair.