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postal

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Word definitions for postal in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a postal/mailing address (= the place where a letter is sent ) ▪ Please give your bank’s full postal address. a rail/coal/postal etc strike (= affecting the rail/coal etc industry ) ▪ A rail strike would cause enormous ...

Usage examples of postal.

It was thought before the postal attacks that inhalational anthrax would be fatal in 80 to 95 percent of cases.

Experts believe that the average lethal dose for inhalational anthrax is ten thousand spores, although in view of the recent postal attacks, we now believe that a smaller number can be fatal, especially for the elderly and those with a weakened immune system.

Remember, even with the postal attacks last fall, the odds of any one person contracting anthrax are much less than those of getting struck by lightning or attacked by a shark.

That was how our neighbors talked, and the beer truck drivers, shipyard workers, Brosen fishermen, the women who worked in the Amada margarine factory, housemaids, marketwomen on Saturday, garbage collectors on Tuesday, they all yapped their words querulously, and even the schoolteachers yapped, though in a more refined way, and the postal and police officials, and on Sunday the pastor in the pulpit.

She knew that she was not so well known in Little Farthing, and here she proposed to get the second set of postal orders herself.

In fact, with the possible exception of what passes for a postal service in Italy, the United States postal Service delays, loses, misdelivers, and mutilates more first class mail than that of any other industrialized country.

Or I could let you look down into Potrero Canyon, an eroded earthquake crack which cuts through populous Pacific Palisades, another postal address in Los Angeles.

If that package went into the postal system before Seaver knew the address, he would have no idea whether it was going to an apartment a block away or to Ethiopia.

Did he not lie in bed, the gross boar, gloating over a nauseous fragment of wellused toilet paper presented to him by a nasty harlot, stimulated by gingerbread and a postal order?

He urged the frustrated postal clerk to move to Bialystok, where local businesses were eagerly seeking German teachers and correspondents to German business houses.

Count Bismarck has not condescended to send a reply to the Corps Diplomatique, requesting to be allowed to establish postal communication with their Governments, much to the disgust of that estimable body.

From the Gare du Nord it travels by special postal handcar around the circular railway line and is delivered to the first train traveling in an easterly direction.

It was thought before the postal attacks that inhalational anthrax would be fatal in 80 to 95 percent of cases.

Jan Bronski, who like my mama stems from the same potato field as his father and his Aunt Anna, manages to hide his rural Kashubian origins behind the festive elegance of a Polish postal official.

The old man, as unshaven as Piotr, wore an Imperial Postal Service jacket so weatherworn its blue had turned grey.