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Postal card   /pˈoʊstəl kɑrd/   Listen
adjective
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



... all sciences by Psychometry. But it is important to know in advance that all the JOURNAL'S present readers desire to go on in an enlarged and improved issue. You are, therefore, requested to signify by postal card your intentions and wishes as to the enlarged JOURNAL. Will your support be continued or withdrawn for the next volume, and can you do anything to extend its circulation? An immediate reply ...
— Buchanan's Journal of Man, November 1887 - Volume 1, Number 10 • Various

... he cried. "Now, in the gold tiara and the spangled opera cloak," he differentiated, "you look like a picture postal card! You got Lotta Faust's blue skirt back to Levey's. But not in the white goods!" He shook his head sadly, firmly. "You look, now, like you was made up for a May-day picnic in the Bronx, and they'd picked on you to ...
— Vera - The Medium • Richard Harding Davis



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