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Definition: Postal |
PostalAdjective1. Of or relating to the system for delivering mail; "postal delivery". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "postal" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references) |
Etymology: Postal \Post"al\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression postal.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Slang | Psychotic. (references) |
Tips from 1870 | Usage: Postal. Bryant would not have said, "I will send you a postal by to-morrow's mail." Postal card or post card would be better. Source: Slips of Speech. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Postal service redirects here. There is also a band called The Postal Service. The postal system is a system for transporting written documents typically enclosed in envelopes and also small packages containing other matter, around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.
In principle a postal service can be private or official. Restrictions are generally placed on private systems by governments. Since the 19th century national postal systems have generally been established as government monopolies with postage (tax) on the article prepaid.
Worldwide the most common method of prepaying the tax is by affixing a self-adhesive postage stamp; the much less common method is to use a postage-prepaid envelope. Franking is a method of creating postage-prepaid envelopes under licence using a special machine. They are used by companies with large mail programs such as banks and direct mail companies.
In 1998 the U.S. Postal Service authorised the first tests of a secure system of sending digital franks via the Internet to be printed out on a PC printer, obviating the necessity to license a dedicated franking machine and allowing companies with smaller mail programs to make use of the option. The service provided by the U.S. Postal Service in 2003 allows the franks to printed out on special adhesive-backed labels. The system is expected to be taken up over time by postal administrations right around the world.
The world-wide postal system comprising the individual national postal systems of the world's self-governing states is co-ordinated by the Universal Postal Union, which among other things sets international postage rates, defines standards for postage stamps and operates the system of International Reply Coupons.
Since the advent of e-mail, which is usually faster, the postal system has come to be referred to in internet slang as "snail mail".
Communication via written documents that an intermediary carries from one person or place to another almost certainly dates back almost to the invention of writing. The development of a formal postal system comes much later, however. The first documented use of an organized courier service for the diffusion of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the diffusion of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BC). This practice almost certainly has roots in the much older practice of oral messaging and may have been built on a pre-existing infrastructure.
The first credible claim for the development of a real postal system comes from Assyria, but the point of invention remains in question. The best documented claim (Xenophon) attributes the invention to Cyrus the Great (550 BC), while other writers credit his successor Darius I of Persia (521 BC) Other sources claim much earlier dates for an Assyrian postal system, with credit given to Hammurabi (1700 BC) and Saragon II (722 BC). Mail may not have been the primary mission of this postal service, however. The role of the system as an intelligence gathering apparatus is well documented, and the service was (later) called angariae, a term that in time turned to indicate a tax system. The Old Testament (Esther, VIII) makes mention of this system: Ahasuerus, king of Medes, used couriers for communicating his decisions.
The next credible claimant to the title of first postal system is China. Claims concerning the origins of this mail system also conflict somewhat, but it is clear that an organized postal infrastructure is put in place during Qin Dynasty (221 BC-207 BC) and that is is substantially expanded during the subsequent Han Dynasty. The origins of a Chinese mail system may go back to the Zhou Dynasty (1122 BC - 256 BC), when Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) says "news of deeds travels faster than the mail." It may also build on a pre-existing messaging infrastructure started by the Shang Dynasty. Whatever its point of origin, the Chinese Postal Service has clear title to the world's oldest continuously operating mail system. Today's Chinese mail system is continuous with one that was probably formalized under the Qin Dynasty.
The first well documented postal service is that of Rome. Organised at the time of Augustus Caesar (62 BC-AD 14), it may also be the first true mail service. The service was called cursus publicus, and was provided with light carriages called rhedae with fast horses; additionally there was another, slower, service equipped with two-wheels carts (birolae) pulled by oxen. This service was reserved to the government's correspondence, another service for citizens was later added.
By the name of the stations in which mail was distributed and messengers' routes crossed, derives the latin name of mail, Posta (originally posata or pausata = place of rest) because in these stations messengers used to rest during their voyages. The english term "mail" is instead supposed coming from the Teutonic name for the bag used by messengers.
Another important postal service was created in the Islamic world by the caliph Moàvia; the service was called berid, by the name of the towers that were built in order to protect the roads by which couriers travelled.
Well before the Middle Ages and during them, carrier pigeons were used, taking advantage of a singular quality of this bird, that when taken far from its nest is able to find his way home due to a particularly developed sense of orientation. Messages were then tied around the legs of the pigeon that was freed and could reach his original nest.
Mail has been transported by quite a few other methods throughout history, including dogsled, balloon, rocket, mule, and even submarine.
Charlemagne extended to the whole territory of his empire the system used by Franks in northern Gaul, and connected this service with the service of missi dominici.
Many religious orders had a private mail service, notably Cistercians's one connected more than 6,000 abbeys, monasteries and churches. The best organisation however was created by Teutonic Knights. The newly insitituted universities too had their private services, starting from Bologna (1158)
Popular illiteracy was accommodated through the service of scribes. Illiterates who needed to communicate dictated their messages to a scribe, another profession now quite generally disappeared.
In 1505, Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I established a postal system in the Empire, appointing Franz von Thurn und Taxis to run it. Von Thurn und Taxis' family, then known as Tassis, had operated postal services between Italian city states from 1290 onwards. Following the abolition of the Empire in 1806 the Thurn und Taxis postal system continued as a private organisation, continuing to exist into the postage stamp era before finally being absorbed into the postal system of the new German Empire after 1871.
Modern mail is usually organised by national services (that in recent times are increasingly being replaced by privately-owned companies), reciprocally interconnected by international regulations (some of which still in their original 18th-century form, many others of which are set out by the Universal Postal Union), organisations and agreements.
As noted above, usually the payment for the service is settled with the attachment of a pre-paid postage stamp; when the envelope or package to which the stamp or stamps are affixed is accepted into the mail by an officer or agent of the postal service the agent usually indicates by means of a cancellation that it is no longer valid for pre-payment of postage (the exceptions being when he neglects to do this, or for stamps that are pre-cancelled and thus do not require cancellation). Stamps are also object of a particular form of collecting called philately, and often their commercial value on this specific market becomes enormously greater that the printed one, even after use. Another form of collecting regards postcards, a document written on a single robust sheet of paper, usually decorated with photographic pictures or artistic drawings on one of the sides, and short messages on a small part of the other side, that also contained the space for the address. In strict philatelic usage, the postcard is to be distinguished from the postal card, which has a pre-printed postage on the card. The fact that this communication is visible by other than the receiver, often causes the messages to be written in jargons.
Mail is quite generally protected by the secret of correspondence (secretus epistulae), meaning that no letter or other document can be read by other than the receiver (under U.S. law, this only applies to First Class Mail). This right is usually guaranteed by most national constitutions, like the Mexican Constitution. Usually special procedures are required in case correspondence has to be, openly or discreetly, controlled by police. The operations of control of the private citizens' mail is called censorship and concerns social, political, legal aspects of the civil rights. While in most cases this censorship is exceptional, military censorship of mail, particularly of soldiers at the front, is routine and almost universally applied.
The use of mail is subject to common rules and a particular etiquette. After the discovery of new communicating systems and vehicles, mail lost most of its special charm in favour of more quickly connecting systems such as the telephone, and remained as a vehicle for commercial or formal documents. It is however still widely in use in more cultivated classes for personal communication; in particular, wedding invitations are always sent by mail.
In modern times, mainly in 20th century, mail has found an evolution in vehicles using newer technologies to deliver the documents, especially through the telephone network; these new vehicles include telegram, telex, fac-simile (fax), e-mail, short-message-service (sms). There have been methods which have combined mail and some of these newer methods, such as INTELPOST, which combined facsimile transmission with overnight delivery. These vehicles commonly use a mechanical or electro-mechanical standardised writing (typing), that on the one hand makes for more efficient communication, while on the other hand makes impossible characteristics and practices that traditionally were in conventional mail, such as calligraphy.
This epoch is undoubtedly mainly dominated by mechanical writing, with a general use of no more of half a dozen standard typographic fonts from standard keyboards. However, the increased use of typewritten or computer-printed letters for personal communication and the advent of e-mail, has sparked renewed interest in calligraphy, as a letter has become more of a "special event." Long before e-mail and computer-printed letters, however, decorated envelopes, rubber stamps and artistamps formed part of the medium of mail art.
The ordinary mail service was improved in 20th century with the use of planes for a quicker delivery (air mail). The first scheduled airmail service took place between the London suburbs of Hendon and Windsor on 9 September 1911. Some methods of airmail proved ineffective, however, including the United States Postal Service's experiment with guided missiles for international mail transport (external link).
Receipts services were made available in order to grant the sender a confirmation of effective delivery.
In many countries a system of codes has been created (they are called zip codes in the United States and postal codes in most other countries), in order to facilitate the automation of operations.
A make-shift mail method after stranding on a deserted island is a message in a bottle.
Letters are often studied as an example of literature, and also in biography in the case of a famous person. A portion of the New Testament of the Bible is composed of the Apostle Paul's epistles to Christian congregations in various parts of the Roman Empire. Other famous letters include:
A style of writing, called epistolary, tells a fictional story in the form of the correspondence between two or more characters.
- Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet
- Martin Luther King, Jr's Letter from Birmingham Jail
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Mail."
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'Postal can refer to:
- the postal service
- the band The Postal Service
- the US slang phrase going postal, a form of mass murder or killing spree
- a controversial computer game (based on the previous expression) developed by Running With Scissors Inc
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Postal."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A postal code is a series of letters and digits appended to a postal address for the purpose of sorting mail. Every postal service (usually having their service area defined by national borders) has a different format and placement for the postal code. In most Engish-speaking countries, the postal code goes after the name of the city or town, whereas in most European countries it goes before it.
Though usually postal codes are assigned to geographical areas, sometimes this is not the case: special codes may be assigned to institutions with large volumes of post, such as government agencies and large commercial companies. One example is the French Cedex system.
Here are some postal code formats:
; Australia: known as the post code: DDDD. In general, the first digit identifies the state. 1 = Sydney NSW PO Box and large users) (2 = NSW& ACT, 3 = Vic, 4 = Qld, 5 = SA, 6 = WA, 7 = Tas, 8 = (Melbourne Vic PO Box and large users), 9 = Brisbane Qld PO Box and large users), (0 = NT.) ; Austria: DDDD (the first digit denotes almost one of the nine provinces -- called Bundesländer -- , the last the nearest post office in the area) ; Belgium: DDDD (in general, the first digit gives the province) list of Belgian postal codes ; Brazil: DDDDD-DDD ; Canada: LDL DLD, the first letter is for a province or a region. (A=NL, B=NS, C=PE, E=NB, G=QC (E), H=Mtl, J=QC(W), K=ON(E), L=ON(S), M=Tor, N=ON(W), P=ON(N), R=MB, S=SK, T=AB, V=BC, X=NT & NU, Y=YT) ; France: DDDDD, the first two digits give the département number
- Key: Ds are digits. Ls are letters.
; Germany: DDDDD since 1993. Before that date, it were only 4 digits. ; Japan: DDD-DDDD ; Mexico: DDDDD. The first two digits identify the state (or a part thereof), except for Nos. 00 to 16, which indicate delegaciones (boroughs) of the Federal District. ; Netherlands: DDDD LL ; New Zealand: DDDD, the first two digits are for the geographical area, and the last two digits may indicate the mode of delivery in the case of cities and large towns, e.g in Palmerston North: street addresses - 5301 ; PO Box address - 5315; Private Bag - 5320; and Rural Delivery -5321. However, postcodes in New Zealand are intended for bulk mailing and are not needed for addressing individual items. ; Poland: DD-DDD ; Portugal: DDDD-DDD ; Romania: DDDDDD since 2003. Before that, only 5 digits ; Sealand: DDDD.
- Cedex
- NB: In the case of Paris, you can determine the arrondissement of an address from its postal code. The last two digits of a Paris address give the arrondissement; 75018 is the eighteenth for example. The exception to this rule are addresses with the word "CEDEX" appearing in them. See Right Bank.
; Serbia and Montenegro: DDDDD ; Singapore: DDDDDD Each building has its own unique postcode. ; South Africa: DDDD last two digits may indicate the mode of delivery in the case of cities and large towns, eig Cape Town: street addresses - 8001; PO Box addresses - 8000. ; Spain: DDDDD The first two digits are for the province, in alphabetical order, hence 08xxx is Barcelona, 28xxx is Madrid. ; Switzerland: DDDD ; UK: known as the postcode: LD DLL, LLD DLL, LDD DLL, or LLDD DLL but other variants are also used. In general the first letter(s) indicate the town, or area, or part of London. See London postal districts for more. ; USA: known as the zip code: DDDDD-DDDD (although for most personal mail, only the first five numbers are used). The first digit represents a region of the United States (0=New England, 1= New York, Pennsylvania, etc), the second and third digit represents the metropolitan distribution point (e.g. 432xx=4(Ohio/Michigan/Indiana) 32 (Columbus Ohio distribution point). The last two digits represents the area of the city (if in a metropolitan area), or a village/town (outside metro areas): 43209 (4=Ohio,32=Columbus,09=Bexley).
- 1001: the main sorting office
- 1002 to 1009: geographical area other than the main fortress areas
- 1010 to 1019: reserved for commercial purposes such as bulk mailing
- others: unallocated
See Also
Universal Postal Union.
External links
- http://www.upu.int/post_code/en/countries/ - PDF files for every country
- http://www.magma.ca/~djcl/postcd.txt Formats of all countries' postal codes
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Postal code."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
| POC | English | Postal Operations Council | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Correspondence | Noun: correspondence, letter, epistle, note, billet, post card, missive, circular, favor, billet-doux; chit, chitty, letter card, picture post card; postal, card; despatch; dispatch; bulletin, these presents; rescript, rescription; post; (messenger). |
Government | Office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council; courts, supreme court; state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA. |
Gravity | Balance, scale, scales, steelyard, beam, weighbridge; spring balance, piezoelectric balance, analytical balance, two-pan balance, one-pan balance; postal scale, baby scale. |
Money | Paper money, greenback; major denomination, minor denomination; money order, postal money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond; bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat; blueback, hundi, shinplaster. |
Double eagle, eagle; Federal currency, fractional currency, postal currency; Federal Reserve Note, United States Note, silver certificate, gold certificate; long bit, short bit; moss, nickel, pile, pin money, quarter, red cent, roanoke, rock; seawan, seawant; thousand dollars, grand. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | I'm a United States Postal Worker (Seinfeld; writing credit: Andreas Lenze; Bea Schmidt) let us see how Dame Fortune smiles upon my next postal adventure (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) You're not a postal worker, are you (Jumanji; writing credit: Greg Taylor) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Postal de Luanda (1970) The Feds: U.S. Postal Inspectors (2002) Bilhete Postal (1980) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | The Postal Service's recently unveiled "Honoring Veterans" stamp is slated for issue in May in Washington. The stamp honors the patriotic dedication of all the men and women who have served in the armed forces. (U.S. Postal Service Photo). |  | 45--Curitiba--Brazil--Panorama--Faculdade de Medicina Foto Postal Colombo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | 27--Sao Paulo--Brasil--Faculdade de Medicina Foto Postal Colombo. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | At anchor in Long Island Sound, circa 1903. The original was a color-tinted postal card. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Sliding down the building ways, during her launching at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 24 August 1912. The original was a halftone photograph, printed on a postal card. Credit: NAVY. |  | Assorting the mail, railway postal service. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Highway post office coach built for the U.S. postal department in 1949 by the Twin Coach Co. of Kent, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | U.S. marine postal service, Detroit River, approaching freighter. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Postal Telegraph Cable Co. on ground floor below German American Bank, possibly Detroit, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Manhattan Beach Coast Guard training station. Negro instructors in the U.S. Coast Guard include Benjamin Jones of Chicago, a postal clerk in private life. Jones holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the Chicago Law School. He is on headquarters staff at Man. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Tour de France 1" by Chico Iuliano Commentary: "US postal team passing the intermediary sprint line on the Champs Elysées." | "Natal 2003" by Ricardo Sousa Commentary: "Postal de Natal." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Conventions and agreements of the Postal Union signed at Rome, May 26, 1906. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Postal operations are separate. (references) | |
Telecommunication and postal services are under the strict control of the government. (references) | ||
Founded by TOP group, mainly for application software in tax, postal, telecommunications, and banking system. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Tunisia | The offense of sending defamatory mail was transferred to the Postal Services Code. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | Res Publica also experienced distribution problems with the state postal system prior to the 2000 presidential elections, and the newspapers were confiscated from kiosks by authorities in Osh and Jalal-Abad. (references) | |
Switzerland | The Federal Government subsidizes the press indirectly by paying $60 million (100 million Swiss francs) yearly to lower the postal rates for newspaper distribution. (references) | |
Economic History | Liberia | The telephone system frequently breaks down and there is only minimal domestic or international postal service. (references) |
Guatemala | Furthermore, a concession was granted to a private Canadian firm to operate Guatemala's postal system. (references) | |
Haiti | Although some problems still persist at the Customs level, including excessive delays, valuation disputes, reports of corruption, and unreliable postal services, there may be some limited opportunities for an expansion of e-commerce activity in Haiti. (references) | |
Human Rights | Russia | The MMPO continued to cooperate with the USMC to investigate allegations of abuse and in 2000 established telephone and postal "hot lines" to receive reports directly from soldiers. (references) |
Tajikistan | The Constitution provides for the inviolability of the home and prohibits interference with correspondence, telephone conversations, and postal and communication rights, except "in cases prescribed by law"; however, the authorities continued to infringe on citizens' right to privacy. (references) | |
Tunisia | Human rights activists accuse the Government of using the 1998 Postal Code, with its broad but undefined prohibition against mail that threatens the public order, to interfere with their mail and interrupt the delivery of foreign publications. (references) | |
Political Economy | REPUBLIC OF KOREA | Blue-collar employees in the postal service, railways, and telecommunications sectors, and the national medical center have formed labor organizations. (references) |
NIGERIA | Essential service workers include federal and state civilian employees in the armed services, and public employees engaged in banking, telecommunications, postal services, transportation and ports, public health, fire prevention, and the utilities sector. (references) | |
AUSTRIA | Meanwhile, the government has sold all its shares in the Postal Savings Bank, Vienna airport company, Austria tobacco company, and Dorotheum auction house and bank, and a majority in Telekom Austria. (references) | |
Political Rights | Malaysia | Postal votes (absentee ballots) by police and military personnel and their spouses also are a concern. (references) |
Malaysia | Opposition parties and NGO's have raised credible allegations of improper manipulation of postal votes, including statements by former military personnel that their ballots were filled out by others or under the eye of commanding officers. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Elections Commission officers reported misuse of postal votes in the 1999 Northwest ("Wayamba") Province elections. (references) | |
Trade | Chad | Chadians and foreigners can execute transactions through the major banks, the Central Bank and the postal administration. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | According to Ivoirian law, all exchange transactions relating to foreign countries must be handled by authorized banks or the Postal Administration. (references) | |
Switzerland | Postal check system: Run by the governmental postal service, it is the main system used by individuals for settling local currency denominated obligations. (references) | |
Travel | Taiwan | International Courier Services: In addition to the vast range of government postal services available in Taiwan, visitors should also be aware that most of the leading international courier services have set up operations on the island. (references) |
Taiwan | Postal Service: Taiwan has an efficient postal system. (references) | |
Guinea | For postal service, most businesses utilize a post office box. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Switzerland | The law prohibits strikes by public servants, as well as by workers in state-owned bodies such as the postal service. (references) |
Greece | Public utility companies, state-owned banks, the postal service, Olympic Airways, and the railroads also are required to maintain a skeleton staff during strikes. (references) | |
Croatia | However, postal employees successfully held a strike in December over their new contract without resorting to mediation and obtained commitments from the Government to continue working on their collective bargaining agreement. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | The incoming Congress should promptly fulfill the promise of the Republican platform and pass a proper postal savings bank bill. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In order to meet our longstanding commitment to make government as efficient as possible, I believe that we should reorganize our postal system along the lines of the Kappel report. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Postal" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 96.59% of the time. "Postal" is used about 733 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 96.59% | 708 | 9,458 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.41% | 25 | 69,787 |
| Total | 100.00% | 733 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "postal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Postal | Last name | 130 | 68,984 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| Spain | Argentaria Caja Postal & Banco Hipotecario S.A. |
| (more examples...) |
Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "postal": army postal service ♦ European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations ♦ formatted postal O/R address ♦ local postal attributes ♦ postal address ♦ postal card ♦ postal cheque ♦ postal clerk ♦ postal code ♦ postal delivery ♦ postal delivery zone ♦ postal district ♦ postal giro service ♦ postal item ♦ postal money order ♦ postal note ♦ postal order ♦ postal rates ♦ postal region ♦ postal reply coupon ♦ postal scale ♦ postal section ♦ postal service ♦ postal stamp ♦ postal tution ♦ postal Union ♦ postal vote ♦ postal zone ♦ universal postal union. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "postal": postal-addresses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
us postal service | 16,785 | postal office | 217 |
postal code | 3,656 | postal services | 216 |
postal service | 2,704 | ontario postal code | 184 |
us postal | 1,516 | postal uniform | 180 |
postal 2 | 1,458 | music postal service | 176 |
postal | 1,278 | united state postal office | 173 |
postal zip code | 1,142 | postal scale | 168 |
canada postal code | 1,000 | international postal code | 167 |
canadian postal code | 825 | postal inspector | 157 |
united postal service | 751 | postal code lookup | 153 |
postal rate | 637 | postal meter | 149 |
postal job | 406 | news postal | 149 |
lyrics postal service | 374 | 2 demo postal | 147 |
us postal zip code | 318 | band postal service | 140 |
us postal rate | 305 | us postal code | 133 |
2 cheat postal | 299 | canada post postal code | 112 |
united state postal | 297 | commemorative postal society | 111 |
us postal services | 278 | us postal service zip code | 106 |
us postal office | 278 | postal stamp | 105 |
united state postal services | 266 | codigo postal | 103 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "postal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | postar (mail). (various references) | |
Arabic | بطاقة بريدية (postcard), بريدي. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | пощенска картичка (postcard), пощенски (mail, post). (various references) | |
Chinese | 郵政 , 邮政. (various references) | |
Czech | poštovní, korespondenèní. (various references) | |
Danish | postnummer (postal code, ZIP code). (various references) | |
Dutch | postcode (postal code, ZIP code). (various references) | |
Esperanto | afranktarifo (postal rates). (various references) | |
Farsi | پستی (Bastardization, Blackguardism, Mail, Misery, Recess, Ribaldry, Turpitude, Villainy, Vulgarity), وابسته به پستخانه . (various references) | |
Finnish | postiosoite (postal address). (various references) | |
French | postal. (various references) | |
German | postalisch (postally). (various references) | |
Greek | ταχυδρομικόσ (mailing), ταχυδρομικός. (various references) | |
Hebrew | של דואר. (various references) | |
Hungarian | postai levelezõlap, postai (mail), posta-, posta (mail, post, post office, relay station). (various references) | |
Icelandic | póstnúmer (postal code, ZIP code). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kartu pos. (various references) | |
Italian | postale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 郵便年金 (postal annuity), 外国郵便為替 (foreign postal money order), 官製葉書 (officialpostcard, postal card), 小為替 (money order, postal order), 〒 (mail, postal service), 簡易保険 (postal life insurance), 駅逓 (delivery of packages, postal service), 貯金局 (Postal Savings Bureau), 万国郵便連合 (Universal Postal Union), 郵便 (mail, postal service), 郵政事業庁 (Postal Services Agency), 郵便振替 (postal transfer), 郵便料金 (postage, postal charges), 郵便マーク (Japanese postal symbol), 郵便為替 (postal money order), 郵便番号 (postal code), 郵便物 (postal items), 郵便貯金 (postal savings), 郵政 (postal system), 郵便 (mail, postal service). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆうびんふりかえ (postal transfer), ちょきんきょく (Postal Savings Bureau), ゆうせい (dominance, eugenic, living a quiet life in seclusion away from the masses, male characteristics, manliness, planet, postal system, predominance, preponderance, sexual, superior power, superiority, vocal, voiced, wandering star, worrying about world conditions), ゆうせいじぎょうちょう (Postal Services Agency), ゆうびん (mail, postal service), ゆうびんちょきん (postal savings), ゆうびんりょうきん (postage, postal charges), えきてい (delivery of packages, postal service), ゆうびんばんごう (postal code), がいこくゆうびんかわせ (foreign postal money order), ゆうびんぶつ (postal items), ゆうびんねんきん (postal annuity), ゆうびんマーク (Japanese postal symbol), こがわせ (money order, postal order), かんいほけん (postal life insurance), かんせいはがき (officialpostcard, postal card), ばんこくゆうびんれんごう (Universal Postal Union), ゆうびんかわせ (postal money order). (various references) | |
Korean | 우편. (various references) | |
Norwegian | postnummer (postal code, ZIP code). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ostalpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | postal (post office, postcard). (various references) | |
Romanian | poştal. (various references) | |
Russian | почтовый (mail, post office). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | poštanski (mail, post office). (various references) | |
Spanish | postal (card, picture postcard, postcard), tarjeta postal (card, picture postcard, postal card, postcard). (various references) | |
Swedish | post (entry, item, lot, mail, mailing, post, quarter). (various references) | |
Turkish | postaya ait, posta ile ilgili, posta (mail, post, post boy, postal service), kartpostal (card, postcard). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поштова листівка (postcard), поштовий. (various references) | |
Welsh | archeb bost (mail order, postal order). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "postal": postally, postals. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "postal": semipostal. (additional references) | |
Words containing "postal": semipostals. (additional references) | |
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"Postal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apostal, Bostall, Opstaele, ostel, ostial, pasal, Pelsall, Pessoal, pestal, pistal, pitztal, pontil, poofta, pooftah, Poptel, posal, posato, Poshall, Posnan, Posta, postale, postally, Postalm, postals, postem, postgl, postle, posto, postual, potal, Potala, Potel, Potell, potsa, Pottall, Pozzallo, Pusat, pusta, pustual, Rostal. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "postal" (pronounced pō"stul) |
| 5 | -ō" s t u l | bicoastal, coastal. |
| 4 | -s t u l | Bristol, crustal, crystal, distal, hostel, hostile, pedestal, Pistil, pistol, vestal. |
| 3 | -t u l | infantile, infertile, accidental, acquittal, anecdotal, artiodactyl, battle, beetle, belittle, betel, bottle, brattle, brittle, brutal, butyl, Cantle, capital, Capitol, cattle, chattel, chortle, coincidental, committal, compartmental, congenital, consonantal, continental, dental, detrimental, developmental, digital, disgruntle, dismantle, ductile, elemental, embattle, entitle, environmental, experimental, extramarital, fatal, fertile, fetal, fractal, frontal, fundamental, futile, genital, gentle, glottal, governmental, horizontal, hospital, hurtle, immortal, immotile, incidental, incremental, spittle, startle, subtitle, subtle, supplemental, tactile, tattle, temperamental, instrumental, intercontinental, intergovernmental, judgmental, kettle, Kittel, Kittle, lentil, lintel, little, mantel, mantle, marital, mental, metal, mettle, monumental, mortal, motile, Myrtle, Natal, neonatal, nettle, noncommittal, nonfatal, nongovernmental, nonvolatile, occidental, occipital, orbital, oriental, ornamental, parental, parietal, periodontal, petal, pivotal, portal, postnatal, Pottle, prattle, prefrontal, premarital, prenatal, projectile, quintal, rattle, rebuttal, recital, rectal, regimental, rental, resettle, scuttle, sentimental, settle, shuttle, skeletal, skittle, societal, throttle, title, tittle, tootle, total, transcendental, transcontinental, transmittal, turtle, unsentimental, unsettle, unsubtle, varietal, vegetal, versatile, vital, vittle, volatile, Whittle, Wintle. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-l-o-p-s-t" | |
-1 letter: altos, lotas, opals, plats, plots, splat, tolas. | |
-2 letters: alps, also, alto, alts, atop, laps, last, lats, lops, lost, lota, lots, oast, oats, opal, opts, pals, past, pats, plat, plot, pols, post, pots, salp, salt, slap, slat, slop, slot, soap, sola, spat, spot, stoa, stop, taos, taps, tola, tops. | |
-3 letters: alp, als, alt, apt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-l-o-p-s-t" | |
+1 letter: apostil, apostle, laptops, patrols, pelotas, portals, postals, tapalos, topsail. | |
+2 letters: apostils, apostles, caltrops, capitols, coalpits, flattops, galipots, goalpost, haplonts, hospital, lamppost, marplots, naphtols, outleaps, outplans, outplays, paletots, pastoral, patulous, petalous, petrosal, plastron, platoons, polecats, polentas, polestar, postally, postanal, postoral, postural, potables, pulsator, shoptalk, spoliate, tadpoles, talipots, tapholes, topsails. | |
+3 letters: allopaths, allotypes, antelopes, antipoles, anviltops, apetalous, apholates, apologist, apostolic, blacktops, calotypes, calthrops, clodpates, conepatls, copulates, cytoplasm, diplomats, ectoplasm, gallipots, gantlopes, goalposts, hospitals, hypoblast, isophotal, lakeports, lampposts, naphthols, oppilates, optionals, palmettos, palpators, pantofles, pastorale, pastorali, pastorals, pectorals, pentanols, pilotages, planktons, plastisol, plastrons, platforms, plethoras, plottages, polestars, polymaths, ponytails, populates, portables, postaxial, postcaval, postfault, postnatal, posttrial, postulant, postulate, potlaches, preallots, pulsation, pulsators, saprolite, scapolite, shoptalks, soleplate, splayfoot, spoliated, spoliates, spoliator, sporulate, spottable, stoopball, stoppable, tabletops, talapoins, telophase, temporals, toeplates, tonoplast, troopials, troupials, uprootals. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Images: Digital Art 8. Quotations: Historic | 9. Quotations: Non-fiction 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Frequency | 13. Names: Company Usage 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Abbreviations 18. Acronyms 19. Derivations 20. Rhymes | 21. Anagrams 22. Bibliography |
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