United States Postal Service
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- proper noun
- Formal
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Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos
- Dan Meek, co-chair of the Independent Party of Oregon, said he was shocked to see a copy of a letter from the United States Postal Service Postmaster General, Patrick Donahoe, refusing the demand of Secretary of State Kate Brown's Director of Elections for USPS.
- work for the United States Postal Service
- United States Postal Service said
Examples
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Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Carroll was the Special Agent in Charge of the Computer Crimes Unit at the United States Postal Service, Office of Inspector General, responsible for all computer intrusion investigations within the USPS network infrastructure and for providing all computer forensic analysis in support of USPS-OIG investigations and audits.
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In addition, and in cooperation with the United States Postal Service, a number of pieces of artwork chosen based on particular criteria such as artistic content can be incorporated into United States postage stamps.
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The United States Postal Service has a reputation for going the distance to deliver the mail.
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Special education teachers received the surveys directly via the United States Postal Service.
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We could only speculate that someone in the family worked for the United States Postal Service.
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In such cases, student-athlete surveys were returned using the United States Postal Service.
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Ken works as the Special Agent in Charge of the Computer Crimes Unit (CCU) at the United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General.
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The United States Postal Service provides essential mail delivery services across the country.
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Millions of people rely on the United States Postal Service for their daily correspondence.
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The United States Postal Service was established to ensure reliable communication through the mail.
Synonyms
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1.0
A public place where people send and pick up letters and parcels
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1.8
A building where people send and receive mail
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3.4
A government service that handles mail and deliveries in the United States
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A government service that collects, sorts, and delivers mail across the United States
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2.0
A government service that delivers letters and packages across the United States
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2.0
A government service that delivers letters and packages across the United States
Surface Forms
Morphology
united + state + postal + service
The phrase is fully compositional: 'United States' denotes the nation and 'postal service' denotes a mail-delivery organization, so a B1 learner who knows those constituents can infer it is the U.S. mail agency. This follows common noun-compound and organization-naming patterns found cross-linguistically (e.g. Spanish 'Servicio Postal de los Estados Unidos'), making the meaning immediately recoverable.
Etymology
United States Postal Service combines United States, meaning the whole country, and Postal Service, meaning a service that moves letters and packages. Picture a single service that delivers 'mail' to every town, so the name means the national agency that handles mail across the country.