postal service

noun

Examples of postal service in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web 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 See all Example Sentences for postal service 

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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 4 Jul. 2024.

Kids Definition

postal service

noun
: a government department in charge of handling the mail
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