postal service

noun

|Updated on: 11 Aug 2018

Definition of postal service

: post office 1

Recent Examples of postal service from the Web

Armor Lux also makes high-tech fabrics for the French military, railway, and postal service.

— matt hranek, Condé Nast Traveler, "The Ultimate Brittany Road Trip," 20 June 2018
That would be ironic, since the founding principle of universal postal service was increased freedom of information.

— david z. morris, Fortune, "With Trump Feud Still Simmering, Postal Service Announces Huge Growth in Package Delivery – and Widening Losses," 12 May 2018
Authorities allege Patel and Lakkamsani fraudulently maintained a key to a postal service mail unit, which was located inside Prodigy’s facility, and used the key to secretly access an official date stamp.

— frank abderholden, Lake County News-Sun, "Feds charge Barrington and Northbrook men in $16 million postal fraud case," 26 June 2018
The postal service accepts stamp suggestions from the public via the Citizens’ Stamp Advisory Committee website.

— jennifer mcclellan, azcentral, "Post office to issue scratch-n-sniff stamps for the first time ever," 21 May 2018
The postal service linked the decrease to its digital scanning technology devices, which alert workers of dogs on their routes.

— brittany britto, baltimoresun.com, "Baltimore ranks sixth-worst city for dog attacks on mail carriers — again," 6 Apr. 2018
Sales volume in Leh is up twelvefold since Incredible Himalaya took over deliveries from the postal service, which was much slower and required customers to pick up packages at the post office.

— New York Times, "Delivering Amazon Packages to the Top of the World," 2 July 2018
In 2015, Ashprihanal Aalto, a postal service worker from Finland, needed a mere 40 days, nine hours, six minutes, and 21 seconds to complete what is billed as the world’s longest footrace.

— martin fritz huber, Outside Online, "The Ultrarunning Hall of Fame," 29 June 2018
Some of its technocratic recommendations are well-considered, like charging a single agency with food-safety inspection or privatising the postal service.

— The Economist, "Remaking the federal government," 28 June 2018

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