How to Use the Postal Service in a Sentence

the Postal Service

noun

• In other words, the ball is with the people who run the Postal Service.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• At the time of the adman’s death, Gary Minihan had been with the Postal Service for thirty-five years.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• The review process began Nov. 8 with the release of a letter of intent by the Postal Service for the study.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 29 Nov. 2023
• Talks broke down as the value of the Postal Service’s land grew amid a development boom.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The situation stems from a crisis at the Postal Service, which has lost $6.5 billion in the past year.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Groff started at the Postal Service after years of missionary work in Africa and Asia.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Most contacts will come through mail delivered by the Postal Service.
  — Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
• But higher rates threaten to drive down the paper mail business that keeps the Postal Service’s finances afloat.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• These numbers are part of an annual push by the Postal Service to properly train the public.
  — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 24 June 2024
• The most recent price changes were proposed by the Postal Service in April and approved by its board of governors in November.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 12 July 2024
• But when the Postal Service appeared for their primary 10-song, 50-minute set, all dressed in white, the crowd definitely got wilder.
  — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
• Delays in getting her mail delivered in Huntsville, Ala., have put her off from relying on the Postal Service to cast her vote.
  — Hansi Lo Wang, NPR, 20 Sep. 2024
• Forever stamps — whose price went up to 73 cents on July 14 — are available at post offices and on the Postal Service’s website.
  — Justine McDaniel, Washington Post, 25 July 2024
• This year, the Postal Service expects to lose $6.3 billion after losing $6.5 billion last year.
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2024
• The renewal of the Postal Service's extensive fleet of mail trucks has been mired in controversy.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2023
• FedEx did not have a lower-cost ground service in 1997, and the Postal Service was not set up to handle as many package deliveries.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 July 2023
• The policy is a break from how the Postal Service has conducted security for two decades.
  — Alana Semuels, TIME, 17 July 2024
• Customers can expect other services to get more expensive, too, the Postal Service said.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
• Several other labor unions, as well as 11 states, have filed briefs supporting the Postal Service.
  — Shannon Bream, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In 2006, Congress required the Postal Service to prefund its retiree health care benefits.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), arkansasonline.com, 20 June 2024
• Death Cab and the Postal Service’s joint-headline tour is still going through the spring, with the former playing Transatlanticism in full to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2024
• But perhaps the stronger selling point was that Gibbard was doing double duty Monday with a rare performance from the Postal Service.
  — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
• The pricing equation now includes things like density: the Postal Service's need to deliver less mail — but to more addresses.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
• The postmaster general is appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service—and can only be dismissed by this group, not the president.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Mail delivery will continue, as the Postal Service does not rely on Congress for funding of that service.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Once a new facility is acquired it will be prepared for use as a post office, and the Postal Service will transition the retail services to the new location.
  — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 10 July 2024
• Some deliveries will be delayed due to the Postal Service holiday.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• As that number increases, the amount of mail delivered to each address on average has decreased, costing the Postal Service more yearly.
  — Julia Roeder, Detroit Free Press, 13 July 2024
• When the Postal Service record came out, obviously the internet existed, Pitchfork was a thing, and blogs were happening, but social media wasn’t a thing.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 18 Sep. 2023
• The article focuses on the volume of the requests and the high rate at which the Postal Service grants them, but does not mention any abuses or inappropriate uses of the information.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024