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postal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
postal
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 public inconvenience.
postal order
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
address
▪ To comply with the intermediate advert requirements the advert must include a full postal address or phone number. 8.
▪ Correct Addressing and Packaging Show the full correct postal address which should include the post town and postcode.
ballot
▪ Should both sides of a case be heard before the postal ballot?
▪ Can anyone think of a way of proposing amendments before the postal ballot without the wasted expense of additional mailings?
▪ The electricians are holding a postal ballot with the results announced after Christmas.
▪ The blasted Fabian Society was insisting on a postal ballot of all its members there.
▪ Will there be a postal ballot?
▪ He was appointed by postal ballot and takes up his new responsibilities in July.
▪ Members of the Transport and General Workers' Union are taking part in a postal ballot after a breakdown of pay negotiations.
▪ Daily Mail journalists voted for industrial action over plans not to recognise the National Union of Journalists in a postal ballot.
order
▪ Please return it at once, or when sending the postal order.
▪ Coins Any uncrossed postal order which does not state to whom it is to be paid.
▪ Send the coupon, and cheque or postal order if applicable to,.
▪ The cheapest way is to buy and send postal orders in various denominations which are acceptable in around 60 countries.
▪ If you paid by postal order, take the counterfoils to the post office for a refund.
▪ You should print your name and address on the back of the cheque or postal order.
▪ Send postal orders to Headgear for Lemurs as soon as you can.
▪ Please make cheques or postal orders payable to Y Care International.
questionnaire
▪ Data was collected using a postal questionnaire sent to just over 3,000 people in two regions - Bristol and Manchester.
▪ This research builds on an earlier survey based on a postal questionnaire by following up some of the respondents to the questionnaire.
▪ With a postal questionnaire, it is important also to check that the layout is neither confusing nor encouraging any particular response.
▪ Altogether 124 of 185 authorities completed our postal questionnaire during November and early December last year.
▪ Non-response is liable to be more of a problem in the larger-sample surveys, particularly those using postal questionnaire methods.
▪ Such questions are more often asked in the interview situation than in a postal questionnaire.
▪ They also supplemented the personal interviews with over 500 postal questionnaires making a total of just over 600.
▪ Late recall will be tested by postal questionnaires at 6 months.
service
▪ Rules should be made permitting access to postal services on the same basis by all users meeting the same conditions.
▪ They started a postal service and operated many other businesses.
▪ Some department stores also offer postal services and sometimes provide catalogues.
▪ Except when a hurricane hits, life in this part of Mississippi is as regular as the postal service.
▪ The Crown relied on the postal service for such notices.
▪ We welcome expansion of telephone services as improving the general well-being but accept curtailment of postal services as signifying necessary economy.
▪ The Ego was designed as a mere postal service which delivers messages to our conscious mind.
▪ Internal printing and postal services were reviewed during the year and a reduction from four to three staff was made.
strike
▪ There's been a big postal strike here, so I hope this letter reaches you before the end of the millennium.
▪ Read in studio A postal strike has stopped mail deliveries to twenty thousand homes and businesses.
▪ Last year's results were lower because of the national postal strike and because of the pay increases, the Post Office said.
▪ At the time there was a postal strike and I didn't hear from David for about 3 or 4 weeks.
survey
▪ The postal surveys are to be followed up with a small number of interviews.
▪ To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent.
▪ A postal survey is being conducted to provide a comprehensive national profile of computer use in local authority planning departments.
▪ Having achieved that first aim through a postal survey the project is going on to examine two major issues.
▪ Methods employed will include historical analysis, postal survey, interviews, international comparison and a workshop directed at assessing future needs.
▪ These interviews will be followed by a large-scale postal survey of a nationally representative sample of marketing executives.
▪ Methods and results Two postal surveys were carried out, in 1984, when the methodology was validated, and 1989.
system
▪ It must also be robust enough to withstand the wear and tear of the postal system and the editor's desk.
▪ The postal system and, soon, telecommunications are being privatized.
▪ In 1637, when Stanhope was persuaded to surrender his patent, Witherings took control of the whole postal system.
▪ Federal authorities said Thursday night they were concerned that more letter bombs could be circulating in the postal system.
▪ No country's postal system is involved.
▪ Two were sent to the federal prison and another was found in the postal system.
▪ Internet e-mail is obviously far less secure than the postal system, where envelopes protect correspondence from casual snooping.
vote
▪ Only one had a postal vote.
▪ Something similar may also have happened in Martin county, where 9,770 postal votes are at stake.
▪ Voluntary patients can register on the electoral roll and can have postal votes.
▪ Telephone canvassing, postal votes, the party machine at Labour's Millbank headquarters had all the answers.
worker
▪ The five unions who called the indefinite strike said up to 80 percent of postal workers stayed away from work in some areas.
▪ Also patron of clerics, diplomats, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, telecommunications workers, and television workers.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
cash a cheque/postal order/draft etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ postal workers
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of clerics, messengers, postal workers, radio workers, stamp collectors, telecommunications workers, and television workers.
▪ Data was collected using a postal questionnaire sent to just over 3,000 people in two regions - Bristol and Manchester.
▪ Federal authorities said Thursday night they were concerned that more letter bombs could be circulating in the postal system.
▪ He was born in 1855 in Dublin, Ireland, where his father was a postal clerk.
▪ Internal printing and postal services were reviewed during the year and a reduction from four to three staff was made.
▪ Should both sides of a case be heard before the postal ballot?
▪ To maintain rapport in a postal survey we must always put ourselves in the position of the respondent.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Postal

Postal \Post"al\, a. [Cf. F. postal.] Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.

Postal card, or Post card, a card used for transmission of messages through the mails, at a lower rate of postage than a sealed letter; also called postcard. Such cards are sold by the government with postage already paid, or by private vendors without a postage stamp. The message is written on one side of the card, and the address on the other.

Postal money order. See Money order, under Money.

Postal note, an order payable to bearer, for a sum of money (in the United States less than five dollars under existing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office.

Postal Union, a union for postal purposes entered into by the most important powers, or governments, which have agreed to transport mail matter through their several territories at a stipulated rate.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
postal

"pertaining to the mail system," 1843, on model of French postale (1836), from post (n.3). Noun meaning "state of irrational and violent anger" (usually in phrase going postal) attested by 1997, in reference to a cluster of news-making workplace shootings in U.S. by what were commonly described as "disgruntled postal workers" (the cliche itself, though not the phrase, goes back at least to 1994).

Wiktionary
postal

a. Relating to the collection, sorting and delivery of mail.

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WordNet
postal

adj. of or relating to the system for delivering mail; "postal delivery"

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Wikipedia
Postal

Postal may refer to:

  • The Italian name for Burgstall, South Tyrol in northern Italy
  • Paul Postal (born 1936), American linguist
  • Postal (video game series), a series of computer games launched in 1997
    • Postal (video game), first entry in the series
    • Postal (film), a 2007 Uwe Boll-directed film based on the Postal computer game
Postal (video game)

Postal (stylized as POSTAL) is an isometric top-down shooter video game developed by Running With Scissors and published by Ripcord Games in 1997. A sequel to the game, Postal 2, was released in 2003. Director Uwe Boll bought the movie rights for the series, and produced a film of the same name. A March 2001 re-release of the game, called Postal Plus, included a "Special Delivery" add-on. A remaster of the game, Postal Redux, was released for Microsoft Windows on May 20, 2016, and is scheduled to release for PlayStation 4 at a later date.

Postal (film)

Postal is a 2007 action comedy film co-written and directed by Uwe Boll. The film stars Zack Ward, Dave Foley, Chris Coppola, Jackie Tohn, J.K. Simmons, Verne Troyer, Larry Thomas, David Huddleston, and Seymour Cassel.

Like the majority of Boll's previous films, Postal is a film adaptation of a video game, in this case, Postal, though this film draws more heavily from the video game's sequel, '' Postal 2. ''

Postal (video game series)

Postal is a computer game franchise developed by Running With Scissors known for its excessive violence and controversial content. Each game is set in a different genre, Postal is isometric, Postal 2 is a first-person shooter and various spin-off titles were in genres such as third-person shooter and top-down shooter. A film adaptation simply titled Postal was also produced by German director Uwe Boll.

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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.