postal
postal — adjective
1. connected with letters and parcels, the service that carries them, or items sent
connected with letters and parcels, the service that carries them, or items sent that way
Many mountain villages still depend on the postal service for medicine.
collocation: postal service
Postal workers delivered exam papers before the typhoon reached Tainan.
collocation: postal workers
The school still accepts postal applications from students living overseas.
Because the road was closed, postal deliveries reached the island late.
A postal address is required before the company can mail the card.
- mail
is the closest everyday alternative, especially in American English, and is common before nouns
- post-office
is narrower and usually points more directly to the office or its official services
- mailed
only describes something that has already been sent, not the whole system
文法句型
postal service
postal worker
postal address
postal application
用法筆記
Usually comes before nouns such as service, worker, address, vote, and application. In everyday American English, mail is often more common in casual compounds, but postal is the standard word for the official system.