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# postal

«postal» in Mova's school dictionary: **To do with the post (mail): sending and delivering…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (postal)

### meaning for a pupil

To do with the post (mail): sending and delivering letters and parcels. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life: postal workers, postal service, postal code (postcode in UK, ZIP code in USA), postal vote, postal order. In geography: a postal address shows where a letter goes. Phrases: «postal service», «postal worker», «postal code», «postal address», «go postal» (US slang — avoid).

### examples

- Write your full postal address on the envelope. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#x1)
- The postal worker delivers letters every morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#x2)
- What is your postal code? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#x3)
- The postal service was slow because of the snow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#x4)
- In Canada, a postal code has letters and numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#x5)
- Grandma sent the present by postal mail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/#x6)

### note

Adjective only (no «a postal»). In the UK, Ireland, Australia and NZ people say «post»; in the USA and Canada «mail». Postal code = postcode (UK, Australia, NZ) = ZIP code (USA) = Eircode (Ireland).

### In the corpora

- [Postal workers and sorting machines read addresses in that order.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/275-railway-crossings-maps-and-addresses/14/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «postal» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/postal/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.