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postal union
noun
: an association of governments that sets up uniform regulations and practices for international mail
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Sallis began involved with postal union and worked as treasurer until his retirement in 1999.
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J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 23 June 2024
About 30 postal union and political leaders rallied in front of a Bronzeville U.S. Postal Service branch Friday afternoon to condemn President Donald Trump and the postmaster general for slowdowns in mail service as the nation prepares for a general election amid a pandemic.
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Alice Yin, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2020
Glover, 75, inherited his heart from his parents, who were postal workers in San Francisco and members of the postal union.
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Tim Greiving, Los Angeles Times, 15 Mar. 2022
At a massive mail facility in Santa Ana, tractor-trailers began pulling away from the docks even if workers were in the middle of loading them, said Will Khong, president of the postal union’s Orange County-area chapter.
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Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2020
Roscoe Woods, a Detroit-area postal union president, said that USPS sometimes lacks up-to-date contact information, complicating the task of contact tracers.
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Maryam Jameel, ProPublica, 18 Sep. 2020
Ellinor, Hjorth’s narrator, is a publicist tasked with handling the Norwegian postal union’s fight against the Third Postal Services Directive in 2011.
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Megan Evershed, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2020
According to postal union leader Carlos Barrios, the workers were instructed to send the mail to a processing plant in Austin in an effort to fool Castro about the extent of problems at the U.S. Postal Service.
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Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, 21 Aug. 2020
On Friday, a representative from the local postal union said that six mail processing machines — four in Baltimore and two in Linthicum — were taken out of use in early August and being dismantled.
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Mckenna Oxenden, baltimoresun.com, 17 Aug. 2020
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Word History
First Known Use
1853, in the meaning defined above
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“Postal union.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postal%20union. Accessed 10 Feb. 2025.
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