postal clerk

collocation in English

meaningsofpostalandclerk

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postal
adjective
uk
/ˈpəʊ.stəl/us
/ˈpoʊ.stəl/
relating to post or to the public service that collects and delivers ...
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clerk
noun[C]
uk
/klɑːk/us
/klɝːk/
a person who works in an office, dealing with records or performing general ...
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(Definition ofpostalandclerkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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How does one charge up the time of thepostalclerkin the issuing of postal orders?
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Boylan was employed as apostalclerkand afterward engaged in the real estate business.
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Her father, a railwaypostalclerk, was also a math wizard who shared his passion for mathematics with his children.
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Apostalclerkloses his money gambling on horses, but eventually meets and falls in love with a wealthy man's daughter.
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In order to get thepostalclerkto cancel the stamps lightly, collectors may rubber-stamp or write philatelic mail on the envelope.
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Borden then found work as apostalclerkand mail carrier and also worked as a nurse's aide.
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After finishing middle school in 1910, he worked as apostalclerkuntil 1916.
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The bird-seller comes from a culture quite different from that of thepostalclerk.
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By the age of 14 he began working as apostalclerk.
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He was a railwaypostalclerkfrom 1904 to 1914, and a post office inspector from 1914 to 1926.
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After securing employment as apostalclerk, he read other writers and studied their styles during his time off.
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The name change is linked to apostalclerkwho felt the extra letters, ugh, did nt properly fit on the rubber stamps being used at the time.
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With the train often operating at 70 mph or more, apostalclerkwould have a pouch of mail ready to be dispatched as the train passed the station.
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The post offices are the branch houses, the post office clerks are the clerks, the post office carriers are the deliverymen, and the railway postal clerks are the traveling salesmen.
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Kringel's letter defines the role of the railway postal clerks within the emerging "industrial" order in a forceful but often vague way.
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Postal clerks kept records of dispatches, and postal stations maintained a staff of cantonal officers who guarded mail delivery routes.
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Unions representing letter carriers and railway postal clerks won passage in 1888 of federal legislation mandating an eight-hour day for postal workers.
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He cut costs while greatly expanding the number of mail routes, postal clerks and letter carriers.
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Although the effort was unsuccessful, a union of postal clerks organized in 1900.
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Then came the postal clerks with the so-called postal agents as managers.
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