postal system

collocation in English

meaningsofpostalandsystem

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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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system
noun
uk
/ˈsɪs.təm/us
/ˈsɪs.təm/
a set of connected things or devices that ...
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(Definition ofpostalandsystemfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The number of offices in the nationalpostalsystempeaked in 1901 at 76,945; in 1910 the number had dropped to 59,580.
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Not coincidentally, all of these media depended upon thepostalsystemfor the transmission of information and goods.
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No genuine transformation of thepostalsystemcould proceed without a full institutional rewiring of the rural mail network.
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Detainees also used thepostalsystemto project their interests onto a wider, imperial stage.
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Confronted with a world where kinspeople seemed dangerously unaccountable, detainees managed their homes through thepostalsystem.
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Rural delivery was not an extension but a transformation of thepostalsystem.
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The respondents could choose between returning the completed survey in a sealed, pre-addressed stamped envelope through the same internal mail system or through the publicpostalsystem.
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The consolidation of the nationalpostalsystemfrom 1890 to 1910 was, moreover, unprecedented; never before had the postal system so drastically pared back and refined its services.
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Yet the autonomy of the department was ever limited by its ability to satisfy the diverse partners in its reputational coalition and its capacity to manage thepostalsystemefficiently.
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In a situation where wives and relatives could not physically be held accountable, detainees used thepostalsystemto ventriloquize their voices and extend their influence.
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Although thepostalsystemis more likely to be free from malpractice, it is assuredly not impervious to it.
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The election expenses level will be swallowed up entirely if there is no free post and the parties are obliged to use thepostalsystem.
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One must go to a polling station or receive a vote through thepostalsystem.
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We are to have the wholepostalsystemupset, and the police rendered incapable of keeping order.
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From the moment the newpostalsystemwas brought in, in the way that it was introduced, it was bound to end in tears.
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Ever since postal voting arose, people have had concerns about what would happen if thepostalsystemwere unable to cope.
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Will they accept the principle that, in order to support the notion of a directly elected mayor, such candidates should have a freepostalsystem?
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A combination of delivery by hand and bypostalsystemwas used.
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The great advantage of the monopoly and the universalpostalsystemis that there is a universal postal rate.
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I hope that the vast majority will apply through the newpostalsystem.
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