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Definition of postal in English: postaladjective ˈpəʊst(ə)lˈpoʊstəl 1Relating to the post. Example sentencesExamples - However, I am convinced that the best interests of the town as a whole would be served by the post office returning to a facility dedicated to postal services.
- Telephones, electricity, and postal services served only one percent of the population.
- Dodgy postal addresses can be another good clue that a fiddle is in progress.
- The commission does not have the power to actually set postal rates.
- The change also means nearly all residents have received new postal codes.
- I don't know if postal services were to blame, but I trust you had a good field.
- He has also raised the issue of whether it is feasible to use postal codes to help improve the postal services around the country.
- If you suspect that this has happened to you, you must notify your area's postal inspector.
- The US postal service and some public safety officials signed contracts for the devices.
- Anyone out there who would like one, just send me a postal address.
- Each new postal delivery brings more impassioned pleas to protect the local post office.
- Post offices serve many functions apart from postal services and many elderly people cannot travel a great distance to reach one.
- The fact that this garbage beggars up everybody's postal service for weeks to come is but the physical consequence of this fraud.
- The list bans foreign investments in sectors such as postal savings, free-to-air television broadcasting and auto passenger transportation businesses.
- Enquiries revealed that postal orders to a value of £124,000 had been cashed at a local post office.
- There is no exemption of postal goods and services mentioned anywhere in the Fair Tax Act of 2005.
- This is a postal service, where there are people on hand to sign off on any package that needs a signature.
- Unlike with postal junk mail, spam places most of the cost burden on recipients and the larger infrastructure.
- Please contact me with your postal addresses, and I'll do the rest.
- May I add my protest regarding the new postal system.
Synonyms mad, crazy, insane, out of one's mind, hysterical, beside oneself, frenzied, crazed, demented, maniacal, manic, frantic, wound up, worked up, raving, wild - 1.1British Done by post.
Example sentencesExamples - Once the petition has been submitted, Bradford Council will consult local people by postal ballot.
- The Government has, however, always insisted the two polls were postponed because of concerns over postal ballot fraud allegations.
- I have not yet received my ballot papers for postal voting - something that has been foisted on millions of us without it being thought through.
- Supporters of some candidates, it is alleged, are demanding householders hand over the postal ballot papers so they can fill them in themselves.
- Yorkshire members can vote on the resolution either by postal ballot or in person at the annual meeting at Headingley.
- It urged candidates and canvassers to avoid handling or helping voters complete their postal ballot papers.
- His appointment will go to a formal postal ballot later this month.
- According to one estimate, there could be 20 times as may postal ballots as in 1997.
- The postal ballot system proved successful with a 42 per cent turnout compared to 32 per cent last year.
- We are fully intending to hold an inquiry here in Stockport over the problems we have encountered with postal ballots.
- Mixed feelings swell up inside me when I consider the issue of postal ballots in the local elections this year.
- A York document services company was today celebrating its key role in this year's biggest municipal postal ballots in England and Wales.
- Printers have won the race to publish all the 14m postal ballot papers for the north west and three other regions, the government said today.
- A number added they were not aware of any problems, and not everyone who wanted a postal ballot got one and not all who did used theirs.
- A higher than usual number of postal voters in this election in Scotland did not receive their postal ballots.
- He said local bigwigs had come into Asian homes, pressuring voters to cast their postal ballots in front of them - insisting they back Labour.
- The Government has brushed aside opponents' fears postal ballots will lead to vote-rigging.
- The reason was clear: although many voters had requested postal ballots, they had decided not to use them.
- It was claimed that voters had been threatened and intimidated into giving away their postal ballot papers.
- They have applied to the government to ditch the traditional polling booth in favour of a pilot to send out 165,000 eligible voters a postal ballot.
noun ˈpəʊst(ə)lˈpoʊstəl US informal A postcard. Example sentencesExamples - Will and Nellie wrote postals (post cards) and letters to each other almost every day.
- These postal cards are working models and make an attractive alternative to conventional greetings card
- In the area of postal cards, this is one of my favorites, since many of the same types of production anomalies can be found here as well.
Phrases informal Go mad, especially from stress. Example sentencesExamples - I ask one question about her to my father and he goes postal on me.
- I survived about thirty-five years of it myself without calling in sick or making colossal mistakes or going postal whenever it was that time of the month.
- It was intentional, a case of someone going postal.
- This was not some guy from the Midwest who'd gone postal on his co-workers.
- You're not the only one who's lost out before, but you don't see me going postal on a hospital room!
- Against the odds, you will find the self-restraint and strength of character to restrain yourself from going postal at annoying chattery colleagues.
- However, instead of going postal and risk the chance you may do something you'll regret later, take his/her picture and throw darts at it.
- The talk was that someone went postal at the docks.
- I ran the department that particular festive season, and I felt like going postal pretty much every day in the stretch before Christmas, believe me.
- I guess there's no use in screaming for help since I doubt our friends have gone postal and are out to kill us.
Derivatives adverb Even postally collaborating with his old drinking pal Pollard via their Airport 5 project yielded disappointment. Example sentencesExamples - I had played it about one hundred times, face-to-face and postally, back in the late 70s and early 80s, and had regaled them with tales of duplicity - so they just had to try it for themselves.
- My position is that meta-gaming is not acceptable in face to face games or postally.
- Seemingly the majority of cards on sale are, as the jargon goes, ‘postally unused’, but it is the used ones I find most interesting.
Origin Mid 19th century: from French, from poste 'postal service'. Definition of postal in US English: postaladjectiveˈpoʊstəlˈpōstəl 1attributive Relating to the post office or the mail. Example sentencesExamples - There is no exemption of postal goods and services mentioned anywhere in the Fair Tax Act of 2005.
- The US postal service and some public safety officials signed contracts for the devices.
- The fact that this garbage beggars up everybody's postal service for weeks to come is but the physical consequence of this fraud.
- Unlike with postal junk mail, spam places most of the cost burden on recipients and the larger infrastructure.
- However, I am convinced that the best interests of the town as a whole would be served by the post office returning to a facility dedicated to postal services.
- He has also raised the issue of whether it is feasible to use postal codes to help improve the postal services around the country.
- This is a postal service, where there are people on hand to sign off on any package that needs a signature.
- I don't know if postal services were to blame, but I trust you had a good field.
- The commission does not have the power to actually set postal rates.
- Post offices serve many functions apart from postal services and many elderly people cannot travel a great distance to reach one.
- Enquiries revealed that postal orders to a value of £124,000 had been cashed at a local post office.
- Telephones, electricity, and postal services served only one percent of the population.
- Dodgy postal addresses can be another good clue that a fiddle is in progress.
- May I add my protest regarding the new postal system.
- If you suspect that this has happened to you, you must notify your area's postal inspector.
- The change also means nearly all residents have received new postal codes.
- Each new postal delivery brings more impassioned pleas to protect the local post office.
- The list bans foreign investments in sectors such as postal savings, free-to-air television broadcasting and auto passenger transportation businesses.
- Please contact me with your postal addresses, and I'll do the rest.
- Anyone out there who would like one, just send me a postal address.
Synonyms mad, crazy, insane, out of one's mind, hysterical, beside oneself, frenzied, crazed, demented, maniacal, manic, frantic, wound up, worked up, raving, wild - 1.1British Done through the mail.
Example sentencesExamples - According to one estimate, there could be 20 times as may postal ballots as in 1997.
- Yorkshire members can vote on the resolution either by postal ballot or in person at the annual meeting at Headingley.
- It urged candidates and canvassers to avoid handling or helping voters complete their postal ballot papers.
- The reason was clear: although many voters had requested postal ballots, they had decided not to use them.
- He said local bigwigs had come into Asian homes, pressuring voters to cast their postal ballots in front of them - insisting they back Labour.
- I have not yet received my ballot papers for postal voting - something that has been foisted on millions of us without it being thought through.
- A higher than usual number of postal voters in this election in Scotland did not receive their postal ballots.
- The Government has, however, always insisted the two polls were postponed because of concerns over postal ballot fraud allegations.
- The Government has brushed aside opponents' fears postal ballots will lead to vote-rigging.
- Once the petition has been submitted, Bradford Council will consult local people by postal ballot.
- They have applied to the government to ditch the traditional polling booth in favour of a pilot to send out 165,000 eligible voters a postal ballot.
- Mixed feelings swell up inside me when I consider the issue of postal ballots in the local elections this year.
- The postal ballot system proved successful with a 42 per cent turnout compared to 32 per cent last year.
- Printers have won the race to publish all the 14m postal ballot papers for the north west and three other regions, the government said today.
- A number added they were not aware of any problems, and not everyone who wanted a postal ballot got one and not all who did used theirs.
- A York document services company was today celebrating its key role in this year's biggest municipal postal ballots in England and Wales.
- Supporters of some candidates, it is alleged, are demanding householders hand over the postal ballot papers so they can fill them in themselves.
- His appointment will go to a formal postal ballot later this month.
- It was claimed that voters had been threatened and intimidated into giving away their postal ballot papers.
- We are fully intending to hold an inquiry here in Stockport over the problems we have encountered with postal ballots.
nounˈpoʊstəlˈpōstəl US informal another term for postcard Example sentencesExamples - In the area of postal cards, this is one of my favorites, since many of the same types of production anomalies can be found here as well.
- These postal cards are working models and make an attractive alternative to conventional greetings card
- Will and Nellie wrote postals (post cards) and letters to each other almost every day.
Phrases informal Become crazed and violent, especially as the result of stress. Example sentencesExamples - Against the odds, you will find the self-restraint and strength of character to restrain yourself from going postal at annoying chattery colleagues.
- I ask one question about her to my father and he goes postal on me.
- I guess there's no use in screaming for help since I doubt our friends have gone postal and are out to kill us.
- However, instead of going postal and risk the chance you may do something you'll regret later, take his/her picture and throw darts at it.
- You're not the only one who's lost out before, but you don't see me going postal on a hospital room!
- The talk was that someone went postal at the docks.
- It was intentional, a case of someone going postal.
- I ran the department that particular festive season, and I felt like going postal pretty much every day in the stretch before Christmas, believe me.
- I survived about thirty-five years of it myself without calling in sick or making colossal mistakes or going postal whenever it was that time of the month.
- This was not some guy from the Midwest who'd gone postal on his co-workers.
Origin Mid 19th century: from French, from poste ‘postal service’. |