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The landlord and the postal service tussled over who should pay for repairs and asbestos abatement.
—Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2024
The postal service's statewide ranking exhibits the same miraculous juxtaposition.
—Grace Tucker, The Enquirer, 7 June 2024
New media conducive to fostering participation can indeed increase the freedoms Clinton outlined, just as the printing press, the postal service, the telegraph, and the telephone did before.
—Clay Shirky, Foreign Affairs, 20 Dec. 2010
The report from the U.S. Postal Service, part of its 2024 National Dog Bite Awareness Campaign, revealed that North Carolina had the eighth-most dog bites on postal service employees in 2023, with 185 — that’s a 27% increase from the previous year.
—Evan Moore, Charlotte Observer, 5 June 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
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“Postal service.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postal%20service. Accessed 4 Jul. 2024.
Kids Definition
postal service
noun
: a government department in charge of handling the mail
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