Definition of POSTAL SERVICE

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The budget would expand social welfare, provide financing for private companies to hire young people and create more public-sector jobs with the postal service and police, the ministry said. — Kwanwoo Jun, WSJ, "South Korea’s Moon Looks to Reclaim Support With Plan for Big Spending Increase," 28 Aug. 2018 State governments spent years pressuring Amazon to collect sales tax, and once the task force started work, the debate shifted toward postal service privatization rather than, say, Trump’s allegations that The Washington Post is an Amazon catspaw. — Adi Robertson, The Verge, "Trump keeps threatening tech companies, but he’s terrible at following through," 29 Aug. 2018 Stacks of padded envelopes sit by the door, waiting to picked up by the postal service. — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, "George Hotz is on a hacker crusade against the ‘scam’ of self-driving cars," 13 July 2018 The internet companies were moderating the postal service, too. — Verge Staff, The Verge, "Seven scary stories to tell by the light of your screen," 31 Oct. 2018 China Post, the national postal service, on Tuesday unveiled its Year of the Pig stamp for 2019, prompting commentators on social media to speculate that the two-child policy is on its way out. — WSJ, "Stamp of Approval for Larger Families in China? Postage Prognosticators See a Sign," 7 Aug. 2018 Trump has often said the postal service loses money because of Amazon. — Ben Brody, The Seattle Times, "Trump renews attack on Washington Post, Amazon," 23 July 2018 The schemers — Terry Jackson, Mahogany Strickland, and Nickyeves Saintalbord — were postal service workers at the James A. Farley Post Office in Manhattan, which is also the Operation Santa headquarters. — Emily Dabau, Good Housekeeping, "3 Postal Workers Accused of Posing as Needy Kids to Steal From Charity," 18 June 2015 Russian banks have tried to raise penetration in small towns and villages, and Russia’s postal service opened a bank in 2016, hoping to fill the gap. — Thomas Grove, WSJ, "Russian Farmer Alters Rural Economy With Virtual Currency, as Moscow Watches Warily," 22 Apr. 2018

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