Expressman

[f. EXPRESS sb.¹ 3 + MAN.] A man employed in receiving and delivering parcels, etc.; esp. an employé of one of the U.S. express companies.

1847.  H. D. Thoreau, Lett., in Atlantic Monthly (1892), LXIX. 744. Munroe … tells the expressman that all is right.

1858.  Homans, Cycl. Comm., 644/1. The ‘expressman’ is only an improvement … upon the ‘common carrier’ of olden times.

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.  Farmer, Americanisms, 229/2. William F. Harnden was the first expressman, and he began his business in 1837.