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postal

[ pohs-tl ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to the post office or mail service:

    postal delivery; postal employees.



noun

  1. Informal. postal card.

postal

/ ˈpəʊstəl /

adjective

  1. of or relating to a Post Office or to the mail-delivery service


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Derived Forms

  • ˈpostally, adverb

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Other Words From

  • postal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of postal1

First recorded in 1835–45; post 3def + -al 1; 1990–95 postal fordef 3, in reference to incidents of violence among postal workers in the early 1990s

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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. go postal, Slang. to lose control or go crazy, especially in a violent way.

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Example Sentences

Her father worked as a teacher, a traveling coffee salesman when the Depression struck and later as a postal employee.

In addition, because some postal districts straddle state lines, the numbers in each state represent the upward boundary of if every ballot from districts that overlap were included in either state.

Miller said many postal workers have been working more than 60-hour weeks to process and deliver the extra load of political mail and ballots.

He has scheduled daily hearings — some of which have included sworn testimony from postal executives — on the agency’s performance.

Advocates and postal experts say the agency, under normal circumstances, should have an on-time score of 97 percent for ballots.

Goff says he registered a postal forwarding service there.

On October 5, 2013, Wilson pointed a pistol at a postal clerk.

When it comes to setting up a reward, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service considers “$50,000 commonplace.”

Until the early 2000s, most deposits were made by mail using postal money orders, a process that was nearly cost-free.

The U.S. Postal Service charges $15.45 to mail a large box to a military base in Afghanistan.

Jack had sent Howard a postal on the road to Florida, and a few lines from Enterprise on the day of their arrival.

I am a patriot, so, without her knowledge, I slipped a postal order for ten shillings into the envelope.

In token of which, send me postal of indifferent contents, casually mentioning the arrival of news from my brother in Moscow.

The attestation of this payment of the tax-payer is signed by the postal employé and bears the stamp of his post office.

This cheque is sent to the Postal Office at Vienna before the bill falls due.

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