postal service

noun

: post office sense 1

Examples of postal service in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are legal battles at the federal level over mail-in voting procedures and the postal service's role in handling such ballots. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2026

But the technology ultimately found uses far beyond its initial goal, helping the Israeli postal service map villages and allowing small, local restaurants to grow a customer base far beyond their neighborhoods. — Mustafa Qadri, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

The postal service was then ordered to refuse to accept any ballot addressed to someone who was not on the list. — Sharon Bernstein, Sacbee.com, 30 Aug. 2026

Four Russian glide bombs destroyed a sorting center belonging to the postal service Nova Poshta in the northern Sumy region, and a drone smashed one of its depots in the Kyiv region, the company said. — Hanna Arhirova, Los Angeles Times, 28 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for postal service

• interservice
• disservice
• preservice
• nervous
• nervus

Kids Definition

postal service

noun

: a government department in charge of handling the mail