> こんな嵐の中、まさかここまで郵便を届けにくるやつは **いまい** 、と思っているにちがいない。  
>  He was surely thinking that nobody would deliver mail here in a storm like
> this. (my TL)

I cannot work out what いまい is doing in this sentence.

I've come across まい as a negative volitional form before, but I'm assuming it
is attached to the verb いる here and that doesn't seem like a verb you could
make volitional.

To me it would make perfect sense if I replaced いまい with いない (is this true?),
so maybe it's just a typo.
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grammar volitional-form
Meaning of いまい in this sentence