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POSTAL SERVICE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postal service mean? 

POSTAL SERVICE (noun)
  The noun POSTAL SERVICE has 1 sense:

1. the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post officeplay

  Familiarity information: POSTAL SERVICE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POSTAL SERVICE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

mail; mail service; post; postal service

Context example:

in England they call mail 'the post'

Hypernyms ("postal service" is a kind of...):

communicating; communication (the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "postal service"):

airmail; airpost (a system of conveying mail by aircraft)

snail mail (any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service)

RFD; rural free delivery (free government delivery of mail in outlying country areas)


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