postal

adjective

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post·al | \ ˈpō-stᵊl

Definition of postal

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 More than a century later, the Biden administration is on it, expanding his postal-like government with massive deficits, old technology, long lines, unaccountable executive orders, and unproductive union jobs for all takers. — Andy Kessler, WSJ, 18 July 2021 Across the country, more than 5,800 postal employees were attacked by dogs last year. — Duluth News Tribune, Star Tribune, 23 June 2021 According to Rod Spurgeon, a Postal Service spokesperson, 57 postal employees were attacked by dogs statewide in 2020. — Olivia Munson, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2021 The letter from Lille, for example, is part of the Brienne Collection—a trunk containing 2,600 undelivered messages collected by 17th-century postal employees and eventually bequeathed to a Dutch museum. — Sophie Bushwick, Scientific American, 21 Apr. 2021 Integrating retired postal employees into Medicare would save the Postal Service another $10 billion over 10 years. — BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2021 Integrating retired postal employees into Medicare would save the Postal Service another $10 billion over 10 years. — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2021 Apparently some postal employees, who technically don’t work for the federal government, also work at or near minimum wage. — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 Feb. 2021 Those methods included using administrative records from the Internal Revenue Service or the Social Security Administration, asking neighbors or postal workers for information or using a last-resort statistical technique. — BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2021

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