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Example sentences for "postal"

Lexicographically close words:
possyble; post; posta; postage; postages; postals; postas; postboy; postboys; postcard
  1. Nevertheless, the postal orders still went, and in the end he confessed to another magistrate, and fervently promised to lead a better life if his false start were only forgiven.

  2. Here he stayed a good while--longer than some who had been there before him, but who had to leave because of vanishing postal orders.

  3. This was immediately countered by the officials and clerks of Brunswick organising a strike that crippled the Prussian railway and the German postal and telegraph system.

  4. Nevertheless, postal and telegraphic communication with foreign countries shall be exclusively regulated by the Realm.

  5. The postal accommodation on the peninsula of Avalon was greatly augmented by the completion of the railway between St. John's and Harbour Grace in 1884.

  6. But shortly after Stayner's assumption of office, the department in London loosened the reins, and directed him to study the wants of the rising communities, and extend postal accommodation to whatever districts seemed to him to require it.

  7. When Canada entered confederation it took into the postal system of the dominion two thousand three hundred and thirty-three post offices.

  8. Opinions may differ as to which of the two classes the application of the test would place postal charges in.

  9. It was not on this account, however, that it was thought necessary to extend to this district the benefits of the postal service.

  10. Why not postal money-orders, why not deposits subject to transfer by the giro-system?

  11. William Franklin, the illegitimate son of Benjamin, who was long a resident of New York and hereabout, conducted in person his father's postal system.

  12. GAGE: DEAR MADAM:--Your postal and note requesting items of history of the almost forgotten doings of thirty years ago, is at hand.

  13. The following year the official postal service was extended to the whole of Japan, but not till twelve months later were private carriers abolished and the post-office, with all its various ramifications, constituted a State monopoly.

  14. This number has now been largely increased, and many millions of postal orders are at present annually sold in Japan.

  15. The International Postal Order Service has also assumed considerable dimensions, and has largely aided, I think, in the industrial and commercial development of the country.

  16. Take the matter of postal orders for example, the introduction of which in this country was so vigorously opposed by the banking community, but a facility which has proved of incalculable utility and convenience to the mass of the public.

  17. Postal orders, when introduced into Japan, quickly came into favour.

  18. A postal service modelled on that of Europe was inaugurated in Japan in 1871 by the introduction of a Government letter post between Tokio, Kyoto, Osaka, and Yokohama.

  19. Thus, while the London newspapers are delivered at Nice the evening of the day after publication, they are not delivered at Mentone till the following morning, because they arrive after the last postal delivery at Mentone.

  20. If people are not acquainted with the foreign postage, they ought to study the postal guides, and in event of any difficulty to make inquiry at a post office.

  21. The establishment of a postal system in England is chiefly due to the sagacity of Richard III.

  22. The chairman cared nothing for his scheme, and told him to return to his duties in India, saying that the East India Company were quite satisfied with the postal communication as conducted via the Cape of Good Hope.

  23. We allude, of course, to the employment of the balloon for postal purposes.

  24. One half of all the fines recovered went to the persons informing and prosecuting for the offences, and in 1797 it was provided that accomplices in the commission of postal crimes should be subject to the same punishment as the principals.

  25. From this time on references to the postal establishment in the congressional journals are of frequent occurrence; additional investigating committees were established and the personnel of the standing committee was changed.

  26. Reasoning such as that indulged in by the counsel, moreover, disregards the principle that runs through all the cases: the enforcement of postal regulations must be consistent with the rights reserved to the people.

  27. In the state conventions there was practically no discussion of the postal power.

  28. Many different views were advanced as to the correct interpretation of the postal grant which at this time had received practically no consideration by the judiciary.

  29. See Postal Laws and Regulations of 1913, p.

  30. This debate, although exhaustive, was inconclusive, and some of the opinions expressed seem, in the light of present day construction of the postal clause, almost absurd.

  31. The postal power, as Marshall pointed out in McCulloch v.

  32. The next forty years saw some extensions of postal facilities, but the improvement was slight.

  33. The first telegraph line in this country was maintained and operated as a part of the postal service, and it is to be regretted that Congress saw fit to relinquish this facility to private enterprise.

  34. The codification of postal laws presented to Congress in 1908, provided for the creation of a Commission of Postal Appeals, to consist of three members, one of whom must be a lawyer, appointed by the President.

  35. Our friend gave him the money and also a postal card, on which he had written his own address.

  36. In one corner of the postal card was the notation, "Received at the post office at New Bedford in an envelope, with a letter, requesting that it be mailed here.

  37. A few days later my friend received a postal card, dated at New Bedford, Massachusetts.

  38. When you get your new position and are about to sail, I want you to write me about it on this postal card, and mail it to me so that I will know that you are carrying out your promises.

  39. Batcheller in appreciation of his services as president of the International Postal Congress, which was held in Washington, D.

  40. And you gave Miss Grant the postal order all right, Mrs. Vokins?

  41. The postal system of the American colonies was organized in 1710.

  42. The reduction of letter postage from two cents per half-ounce to two cents per ounce, which took effect July 1st, suggests a few words in regard to postal matters in general.

  43. To get them, you should address a postal card thus: Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.

  44. It seemed a pity to waste a good postal card and everybody likes to help a bright boy along; and beside they wanted the honey!

  45. Choose the ones you want and address another postal card to the Secretary of Agriculture.

  46. To get the bulletins of your own State Experiment Station you have only to address another postal card; this time to the Director of State Experiment Station, with the name of the post-office and state.

  47. He also left a self-addressed postal card with prices and order blank printed on one side, and nine out of ten of the people he called on sent orders.

  48. At the expiration of that time, stamps must be affixed and the publications sent at third-class postal rates.

  49. Subscriptions could not be given away because the postal laws forbade it.

  50. Impress upon him the necessity of mailing postal card No.

  51. Increases in postal charges will bring in £3-1/2 millions this year and £4 millions in a full year.

  52. There has been little serious criticism of these changes in taxation except that many people, who seem to regard the penny post as a kind of fetish, have expressed regret that the postal rate of the letter should be raised to 1-1/2 d.

  53. The report of the Postmaster-General shows the business of the Post-Office Department and the condition of the postal service in a very favorable light, and the attention of Congress is called to its practical recommendations.

  54. Progress has been made in restoring the postal service in the Southern States.

  55. The Postmaster-General's report furnishes a full and clear exhibit of the operations and condition of the postal service.

  56. Postal operations had been renewed, and efforts were being made to restore them to their former condition of efficiency.

  57. The report of the Postmaster-General presents a most satisfactory condition of the postal service and submits recommendations which deserve the consideration of Congress.

  58. It is strictly correct to say that the sun loses heat by radiation, just as you lose a sovereign by investing it in the purchase of a postal order.

  59. It is like sending a sovereign to a friend by a postal order.

  60. He has made himself acquainted with the statistics of postal time, telling him when the night mail is due, and when the first distribution of letters in the metropolitan district.


  61. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    postal order; postal savings; postal service