postriders

Noun

postrider (plural postriders)

1. One who rides over a postroad to carry the mails.
   • Six persons were chosen as post-riders, to give due notice to the country towns of any attempt to land the tea by force1834–1874, George Bancroft, History of the United States, from the Discovery of the American Continent, volume (please specify |volume=I to X), Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company [et al.], →OCLC