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Examples of postal service in a Sentence
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The office compared the U.S. to 30 other nations that were selected by country size and postal service revenue, as well as the ability to source reliable data.
—Bill Chappell, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
The postal service had created a small laboratory and research group to look into how to improve telecommunications, staffed with experts in designing experiments.
—Dylan Loeb McClain, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
His father, Curtis Hill Sr., a postal service worker who also led the Elkhart NAACP and Urban League, was the first to integrate the northeast side of Elkhart, a white neighborhood.
—Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2024
The postal service said the move to switch carriers to UPS should help improve efficiency of mail transportation as well as reduce overall transportation costs, specifically airfreight costs.
—Olivia Evans, The Courier-Journal, 1 Apr. 2024
More than 300 mail carriers were robbed during the first half of the current fiscal year (from Oct. 1, 2022, to March 31), the postal service said.
—Chris Ramirez, Journal Sentinel, 4 Jan. 2024
So far, the postal service has replaced more than 15,000 blue boxes in key areas with a new high-security blue collection box.
—Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Mar. 2024
Since last week, sympathy action among postal workers have disrupted the Swedish Transport Agency’s deliveries of license plates to Tesla, as current regulations require them to be shipped via the Swedish postal service, PostNord AB.
—Jonas Ekblom, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
But postal service officials said on the call that seven of 10 pieces of mail would still be delivered within the current three-day service standard.
—Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 29 June 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 23 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
postal service
noun
: a government department in charge of handling the mail
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