postal

[ pohs-tl ]

/ ˈpoʊs tl /

adjective

of or relating to the post office or mail service: postal delivery; postal employees.

noun

Informal. postal card.

Idioms for postal

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

Origin of postal

1835–45; post³ + -al¹; def. 3 in reference to incidents of violence among postal workers in the early 1990s

Words nearby postal

postage, postage due stamp, postage meter, postage stamp, postage-stamp, postal, postal card, postal code, postal delivery zone, postal note, postal order

Example sentences from the Web for postal

Goff says he registered a postal forwarding service there.

‘Ready for Romney’ Is Amateur Hour |Tim Mak |December 23, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
On October 5, 2013, Wilson pointed a pistol at a postal clerk.

Post Office Robbers More Wanted Than ISIS |M.L. Nestel |December 13, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
Mavis Lilian Lever was born in Dulwich, south London, on May 5, 1921, the daughter of a postal worker and a seamstress.

Week in Death: The Woman Who Cracked Hitler’s Codes |The Telegraph |November 17, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
This man will get a job at the Postal Service, “pretty high up.”

What Psychic Sylvia Brown Didn’t See |Winston Ross |May 10, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

The federal government cut about 14,000 positions, with most of those coming from the postal service.

Jobs Report: Don’t Panic Yet—the Numbers Will (Probably) Be Revised Up |Daniel Gross |April 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Let us therefore compare for a moment the railroad costs of the express traffic with the railroad costs of the Postal System.

The Express Companies of the United States |Bert Benedict
Everybody reads a postal, and everybody would read it as it came along, and see its importance, and help it on.

The Peterkin Papers |Lucretia P Hale
The safest ways to remit are by registered letter or postal note.

The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 16, February 25, 1897 |Various
These were the reply card and the Postal Union card in a change of color.

Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery |Clifton Armstrong Howes
Please send me a set of the postal cards formerly sent to Tip Top readers, if you still have them.

Owen Clancy's Happy Trail |Burt L. Standish

British Dictionary definitions for postal

postal

/ (ˈpəʊstəl) /

adjective

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

Derived forms of postal

postally, adverb

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postal

adjective

noun

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