1
: of or relating to the mails or the post office
2
: conducted by mail
postal chess
3
: insanely or murderously violent
—usually used in the phrase go postal
Examples of postal in a Sentence
Postal rates are going up.
The city worked to quickly restore postal service.
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Sharon Curtis, president of the Missouri Postal Workers Union, said the East Lynne office is supposed to be staffed by a postal support employee, who is a temporary non-career employee hired for roughly a year.
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Bella Waters, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025
Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
More than 6,000 postal employees were attacked by dogs nationwide in 2024, the release said.
—Sarah Linn
july 21, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
Those affected recipients included police officers, firefighters, postal workers and public school teachers.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 21 July 2025
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Bella Waters, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2025
Not least, Mailman is a lament for the decline of service as an American ideal—for the cultural twilight of the Halloween job: those occupations, such as police officer, firefighter, Marine, and, yes, postal worker, whose worth is not measured first and foremost in dollars but in public esteem.
—Tyler Austin Harper, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2025
More than 6,000 postal employees were attacked by dogs nationwide in 2024, the release said.
—Sarah Linn
july 21, Sacbee.com, 21 July 2025
Those affected recipients included police officers, firefighters, postal workers and public school teachers.
—Mike Snider, USA Today, 21 July 2025
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“Postal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postal. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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postal
adjective
post·al
ˈpōs-tᵊl 
: of or relating to mail or to the post office
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