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postal card

noun

  1. a card sold by the post office with a stamp already printed on it.


postal card

noun

  1. another term for postcard
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of postal card1

An Americanism dating back to 1870–75
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Example Sentences

On November 28, 1892, Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast, the mad Irish immigrant and Harrison supporter, selected one of his postal cards.

Also showing at the museum is “Greetings from Washington,” which reveals how the District was depicted in postal cards as the city — and postcards themselves — evolved.

This one breaks our $600 budget because Marks has it for sale for $850, but index and government postal cards are much less.

From Forbes

He took Montag quickly into the bedroom and lifted a picture frame aside, revealing a television screen the size of a postal card.

Text matter on a postal card may be of such a character that it may be registered as a "book."

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