- connected with the official system for sending and delivering letters, etc.
- your full postal address
- the postal service/system
- postal charges
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- (especially British English) involving things that are sent by post
- postal bookings
Word Originmid 19th cent.: from French, from poste ‘postal service’.
Idioms
See postal in the Oxford Advanced American DictionarySee postal in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic Englishgo postal
- (especially North American English, informal) to become very angry
- He went postal when he found out.
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