Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Postal Service

The functions and activities carried out by the U.S. Postal Service, foreign postal services, and private postal services such as Federal Express.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

The functions and activities carried out by the U.S. Postal Service, foreign postal services, and private postal services such as Federal Express.

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Synonyms

12 entry terms
  • Service, Postal
  • Postal Services
  • Services, Postal
  • Mail
  • Mail Distribution
  • Mail-Order
  • Distribution, Mail
  • Distributions, Mail
  • Mail Distributions
  • Mail Order
  • Mail-Orders
  • Mails

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Aspects Covered

12 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, education, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

  1. I01w.451.617w

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Postal Service. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D011177. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D011177
  2. Postal Service. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_service
  3. Postal Service. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1529128