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Examples of postal service in a Sentence
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Dowd was part of the mail-art scene, which circumvented traditional media and distribution channels in favor of artists trading pieces through the postal service.
—Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 14 Feb. 2024
Latest frigid weather is adding to the postal service's delivery woes.
—USA TODAY, 26 Jan. 2024
In addition to at least 45,000 fully electric Next Generation Delivery Vehicles by 2028, the postal service plans to buy 21,000 EVs from automakers, including 9,250 Ford e-Transit vans.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2024
It was called the postal service and Royal Mail and Deutsche Post.
—Steve Mollman, Fortune, 16 Dec. 2023
Tesla filed a separate lawsuit against the Nordic postal service PostNord in an attempt to get the company to release its packages.
—Morgan Meaker, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
When is the postal service going to manage their staff better?
—Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Jan. 2024
In 1893—the year that Wanamaker left office—Philadelphia’s postal service became the first in the U.S. to adopt pneumatic tube service.
—Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
Paddock was a 64-year-old retired postal service worker, accountant and real estate investor with a penchant for guns and gambling, and homes in Reno and Mesquite, a retirement community more than an hour’s drive from Las Vegas.
—Ken Ritter, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1885, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near postal service
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“Postal service.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postal%20service. Accessed 19 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
postal service
noun
: a government department in charge of handling the mail
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