postal savings bank

noun

1. any of the savings banks formerly operated by local post offices and limited to small accounts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of postal savings bank¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

When Austria established its postal savings bank, in 1882, a regular check and clearing system was made a feature thereof.

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Thumb-print identifications have been extended to commercial uses by the postal savings bank on the Philippines at Manila.

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The promise made by all political parties of a postal savings bank is probably the most encouraging sign we have had.

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This was not true of the postal savings bank, however, an institution which came into existence in the same year.

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Am trying to arrange to have this money put in postal savings bank to protect them from themselves.

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