Yes, ahead of Holly Golightly, Travis Bickle, and even Ralph Kramden, he’s number 12 on the list. Everyone’s favorite postal worker with the poorly developed socialization skills and intense desire to transfer to Hawaii. I have to take issue with one item in the story, though- the Memorable Quote offered is “Hello, Jerry”. Well, maybe, but as a postal worker myself, I can still hear Newman explaining that postal workers ‘go postal’…

…Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming. There’s never a letup. It’s relentless. Every day it piles up more and more, but the more you get out, the more it keeps coming. And then the bar code reader breaks. And then it’s Publisher’s Clearinghouse day. 

Greatest Fictional New Yorkers #12: Newman

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