postal service

noun

Examples of postal service in a Sentence

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Absentee voting and vote-by-mail allow people to send in their ballots via the postal service. Rebecca Schneid, Time, 18 Aug. 2025 Seeking to facilitate their communications with families, neighbors and business associates back home, the U.S. leaned on the postal service to do the job. Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 23 July 2025 The rankings are part of the postal service's annual dog bite awareness campaign. Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 4 July 2025 When will the next changes to the postal service happen? Allison Kiehl, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for postal service

Word History

First Known Use

1885, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of postal service was in 1885

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“Postal service.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postal%20service. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.

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postal service

noun
: a government department in charge of handling the mail
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