postal official

collocation in English

meaningsofpostalandofficial

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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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official
noun[C]
uk
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/us
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
a person who has a position of responsibility in ...
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(Definition ofpostalandofficialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It means that the great army of civil servants, railway and postal officials, police and soldiers will not be paid.
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But this was a case where the postal officials could have had no instructions.
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If he cannot get anyone to take it on as a sub-post office why does he not open a post office, and staff it with permanent postal officials?
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Then, if the postal officials should say they know nothing about it, the dependants could at least refer them to the notice in their own post office.
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The response of postal officials may include withdrawal of all the stamps, or simply the suspension of printing and distribution, pending revision and reprinting.
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The postal official's son studied engineering science as well as law and political science.
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Postal officials generally agreed to the name submitted so long as the name was not already in use elsewhere in the state.
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Postal officials also rejected because another post office of that name existed elsewhere in the territory.
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Local governments and postal officials successfully seized the opportunity to raise additional funds.
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If he is unable to do so, and thepostalofficialis able to translate he does so.
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How wide is the authority to do what we would have thought would be against the instincts of a goodpostalofficial, to open mail?
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Pen cancels are still sometimes seen today when apostalofficialneeds to cancel stamps missed by the automatic cancelling machine.
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Here he would spend the next 33 years of his life, working as a trader, farmer,postalofficial, et al.
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Nouri received a formal education and became apostalofficial.
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Postal officials rarely introduced new program ideas all at once.
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His father was apostalofficial.
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Postal officials used the first criterion informally, the second publicly.
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Why, then, would we gainsay postal officials who invoked the same principles in restricting the number of routes in southern districts?
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Postal officials' ties to agrarian groups, progress leagues, and newspapers - the latter interacted frequently with the department over matters relating to second-class mail classifications - were their most valuable assets.
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It was precisely the multiplicity and diversity of civic and voluntary associations during the period from 1880 to 1920 that enabled postal officials to enter and occupy these unique positions.
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