How to Use the Postal Service in a Sentence

the Postal Service

noun

• In other words, the ball is with the people who run the Postal Service.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• At the time of the adman’s death, Gary Minihan had been with the Postal Service for thirty-five years.
  — Emily Harnett, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
• The review process began Nov. 8 with the release of a letter of intent by the Postal Service for the study.
  — Doug Thompson, arkansasonline.com, 29 Nov. 2023
• Talks broke down as the value of the Postal Service’s land grew amid a development boom.
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
• The situation stems from a crisis at the Postal Service, which has lost $6.5 billion in the past year.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 28 Nov. 2023
• Groff started at the Postal Service after years of missionary work in Africa and Asia.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• Most contacts will come through mail delivered by the Postal Service.
  — Cortlynn Stark, Sacramento Bee, 7 Feb. 2024
• But higher rates threaten to drive down the paper mail business that keeps the Postal Service’s finances afloat.
  — Jacob Bogage, Washington Post, 11 Apr. 2023
• These numbers are part of an annual push by the Postal Service to properly train the public.
  — Teri Sforza, Orange County Register, 24 June 2024
• But when the Postal Service appeared for their primary 10-song, 50-minute set, all dressed in white, the crowd definitely got wilder.
  — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
• This year, the Postal Service expects to lose $6.3 billion after losing $6.5 billion last year.
  — Madeline Nguyen, The Arizona Republic, 13 Apr. 2024
• The renewal of the Postal Service's extensive fleet of mail trucks has been mired in controversy.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 2 Mar. 2023
• FedEx did not have a lower-cost ground service in 1997, and the Postal Service was not set up to handle as many package deliveries.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 5 July 2023
• Customers can expect other services to get more expensive, too, the Postal Service said.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 2 July 2024
• Several other labor unions, as well as 11 states, have filed briefs supporting the Postal Service.
  — Shannon Bream, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2023
• In 2006, Congress required the Postal Service to prefund its retiree health care benefits.
  — Kelly Yamanouchi The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (tns), arkansasonline.com, 20 June 2024
• Death Cab and the Postal Service’s joint-headline tour is still going through the spring, with the former playing Transatlanticism in full to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
  — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2024
• But perhaps the stronger selling point was that Gibbard was doing double duty Monday with a rare performance from the Postal Service.
  — Piet Levy, Journal Sentinel, 7 May 2024
• The pricing equation now includes things like density: the Postal Service's need to deliver less mail — but to more addresses.
  — Bill Chappell, NPR, 12 Apr. 2024
• The postmaster general is appointed by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service—and can only be dismissed by this group, not the president.
  — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
• Mail delivery will continue, as the Postal Service does not rely on Congress for funding of that service.
  — Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 28 Sep. 2023
• Some deliveries will be delayed due to the Postal Service holiday.
  — Alex Sundby, CBS News, 10 Nov. 2023
• When the Postal Service record came out, obviously the internet existed, Pitchfork was a thing, and blogs were happening, but social media wasn’t a thing.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 18 Sep. 2023
• The article focuses on the volume of the requests and the high rate at which the Postal Service grants them, but does not mention any abuses or inappropriate uses of the information.
  — Washington Post, 5 July 2024
• The suit also seeks an order mandating that the Postal Service either vacate the property or negotiate a new lease within 60 days.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• Ballot harvesting is collecting and turning in a mail ballot on behalf of someone else if a voter wants to use the ballot to vote at home but can’t get to an official drop-off site or doesn’t want to use the Postal Service.
  — Anthony Man, Sun Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• James Boxrud, a spokesman for the Postal Service in Colorado, acknowledged the delays affecting mountain communities.
  — Deon J. Hampton, NBC News, 25 Feb. 2023
• First-class mail is becoming a smaller part of the Postal Service’s business because of online communication.
  — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 8 July 2023
• Behind the scenes, Mr. Windom had begun joining with investigators from other agencies, including the Postal Service, to track the trail of fake electors.
  — Adam Goldman, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• Arizona law does not allow official election materials, like ballots, to be forwarded by the Postal Service.
  — The Arizona Republic, 6 June 2024

Last Updated: 30 Aug 2024