postal system
National letter network
A postal system is the network of services, infrastructure, and personnel that collects, transports, and delivers mail within a country or between countries.
Most nations operate a government postal system alongside private carriers.
The term encompasses everything from local post offices to sorting facilities to delivery routes: The postal system here is surprisingly efficient.
- mail carrierDelivers letters professionally
- rural routePostal path through farmland
- mailboxContainer for delivered mail
- mail slotDoor opening for deliveries
- air mailPost transported by aircraft
first class · priority mail · registered mail · dead letter office · philately · express delivery · special delivery · money order · mail forwarding · return receipt · international shipping · PO box · certified mail · bulk mailing · stamp collecting · package tracking · parcels · packages
- communication methodsphone line, radio, telephone, television, text
- systemsecosystems, ecosystem, biological systems, transportation network, communication systems
- Congress powersspending power, declare war, impeachment, lawmaking, appropriations
- Meiji JapanEmperor Meiji, modernization, westernization, privy council, prefectures
- ancient communicationsmoke signal, hieroglyphs, carrier pigeon, pictographs, pictograms
- communicationsannouncement, telephone, address, phone, key messages
postal systememail
Digital written communication
electronic mail · digital communication · instant messaging · text messaging · telecommunications
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