postal

adjective

post·​al ˈpō-stᵊl 

1

: of or relating to the mails or the post office

2

: conducted by mail

postal chess

3

: insanely or murderously violent

—usually used in the phrase go postal

Examples of postal in a Sentence

Postal rates are going up.

The city worked to quickly restore postal service.

Recent Examples on the Web

The mail carrier inside the postal truck was leaning out to deliver mail at the time. —Kristina Rex, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026

She’s employed at West Virginia’s federally funded Head Start program for low-income children and her husband is a postal worker. —ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026

In the 1910s there were eleven or twelve postal deliveries a day. —Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026

Remco Evenepoel suffered a dislocated collarbone, nerve damage, and lung contusions after colliding with the door of a postal van in December 2024, while former Tour winner Egan Bernal was nearly killed after colliding with a bus in his native Colombia in January 2022. —Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1842, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing postal

• go postal
• postal address
• postal card
• postal order
• postal service
• postal union

Rhymes for postal

• coastal
• intercoastal
• intracoastal

Kids Definition

postal

adjective

post·​al ˈpōs-tᵊl 

: of or relating to mail or to the post office