Putting mail through 26 million front doors every day gives the postman unique access to every household, and it's a privilege that extends the responsibility of the job beyond one of delivery man, or woman, to - in some cases - neighbourhood watch, community guardian and social worker, rolled into one.
One man told us that he had left his job and his house in this city, a comfortable job and house, to take his five children to live in a tent that he had saved from the last refugee crisis in 1991, thinking they might need it again.
In other words, the 2008 trillion dollar derivatives blowout and the resulting destruction of the US job and housing market was not caused by one man like Soros, but by loose regulation over time that markets took advantage of, and got crucified for.
Opening your form W-2 can be traumatic for many folks but for one Tennessee man, it was enough to make him quit his job.
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When one man took Chris Ward away, his mother asked if he would lose his job.
"Being cut man to Joe was the easiest job in the world - no one could lay a glove on him, " said Mr Coleman.
Under one such marker lies a young man--Martin Treptow--who left his job in a small town barber shop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division.
We all fervently hope this man will rapidly learn the job--assertions to the contrary, no one comes into the Oval Office ready on day one.
His supporters say he concentrated on old-fashioned face to face lobbying of the 350 or so voters, repeating his mantra that the SDLP has one last opportunity to end its decline and that he was the only man to do the job.
Had the bass eaten just one more bite of breakfast, it would have brought instant fame and riches to a man whose day job is arresting prostitutes and drug dealers in the San Fernando Valley.
There was one man who had never had a lasting relationship beyond a brief marriage, didn't particularly like his job as a machinist and had felt profoundly disillusioned by life.
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One man who didn't want to be named said Mr Obama should be in the White House doing his job and sorting out the mess, rather than making speeches and touring shipyards here.
"The Amazing Spider-Man 2" is expected to create 3, 500 jobs, but one issue is that much of the job creation happens in already wealthy areas of the state such as New York City and Long Island.
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Nonetheless, few people doubt that Mr Zedillo favours one man in particular: Francisco Labastida, his 56-year-old interior minister, who this week resigned his job and announced his candidacy.
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