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
• Of the successful deliveries, 80% were handled by the Postal Service, which shouldn’t have carried any of them, the study found.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 13 Nov. 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
• The continuing decline in the Postal Service ‘s stature has lately been countered by what appears to be a concerted effort to burnish DeJoy’s image.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024