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Postal card   /pˈoʊstəl kɑrd/   Listen
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Postal  adj.  Belonging to the post office or mail service; as, postal arrangements; postal authorities.
Postal card, or Post card, a card used for transmission of messages through the mails, at a lower rate of postage than a sealed letter; also called postcard. Such cards are sold by the government with postage already paid, or by private vendors without a postage stamp. The message is written on one side of the card, and the address on the other.
Postal money order. See Money order, under Money.
Postal note, an order payable to bearer, for a sum of money (in the United States less than five dollars under existing law), issued from one post office and payable at another specified office.
Postal Union, a union for postal purposes entered into by the most important powers, or governments, which have agreed to transport mail matter through their several territories at a stipulated rate.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Postal card" Quotes from Famous Books



... bliss any woman but yourself is always liable to pitch in with a pen, and you see you are not yourself but only "any woman" to me as yet. Besides, women have written to me before you. My mother does so regularly. She encloses a postal card and all I have to do is to mail it and there she is answered. It's a great scheme which I proudly invented when I first went away to school and I recommend it to you if you—if you ...
— The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary • Anne Warner

... calmness. "Prodigal son sends postal card stating that he is prepared to receive overtures looking to a resumption of family relations. No ...
— Flint - His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes • Maud Wilder Goodwin

... sasshays up to you on the street to take a crack at your pearl stick-pin, do you reckon he's going to drop you a postal card first? You gotta be ready for him. ...
— The Coming of Bill • P. G. Wodehouse

... Report is now ready for distribution. Those who wish it will please send us a postal card ...
— American Missionary, Vol. 45, No. 2, February, 1891 • Various

... which energy is exerted. Perhaps the time will come when science and commerce will supply every tintype photographer with an ergograph and the knowledge to use it. Then we shall hear at summer resorts and fairs, "Your ergograph on a postal card, three for a quarter." We can step inside, harness our middle finger to the ergograph, lift it up and down forty-five times in ninety seconds, and lo! a photograph of our vitality! If we have strong muscles or good control, the ...
— Civics and Health • William H. Allen



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