postal

[pohs-tl]

adjective

1. of or relating to the post office or mail service.

   postal delivery; postal employees.

noun

1. Informal.,  postal card.

postal

/ ˈpəʊstəl /

adjective

1. of or relating to a Post Office or to the mail-delivery service

Other Word Forms

• postally adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of postal¹

First recorded in 1835–45; post ³ def. + -al ¹; 1990–95 postal for def. 3, in reference to incidents of violence among postal workers in the early 1990s

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. go postal, to lose control or go crazy, especially in a violent way.

Example Sentences

Miles said he did not want to entrust the tickets to the postal system, so he arranged to meet Kai's customers in hotels across England to hand them over personally.

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No doubt the postal workers in Plinkst were as miserable and downtrodden as the rest of the town.

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“Oh, how glorious to be a postal worker!” she thought as she spread her treasures across the ottoman, so as to have the satisfaction of seeing them all at once.

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Even the London General Post Office, which was the swiftest and most reliable postal service in the world, would be flummoxed by that address.

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Deliveries were made five times daily, thanks to a fleet-footed army of postal workers who whisked the mail from here to there before one could say jackrabbit.

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