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Definition of postie in English: postienoun ˈpəʊsti British informal A postman or postwoman. Example sentencesExamples - What intrigues me is why the postie didn't just throw the letter away.
- He said white socks on posties have not been banned, but the company recommends black or dark blue coloured feet-covers, presumably to colour co-ordinate with their uniforms.
- But he said that 99.9 per cent of the time, posties with letters still undelivered at the end of their shift would still deliver them.
- Only would be better if the postie could be bothered to put them through the letterbox.
- We have told how posties found undelivered mail piling up in sorting offices and how city events that depended on post getting through have been scuppered.
- These savings are being ploughed back into improving the basic pay of posties ensuring staff in areas that have implemented the changes successfully have a basic pay of £300 per week.
- You will not find posties cycling on many pavements on main roads, although with the traffic being a far greater danger than pedestrians, one could not blame them.
- When will posties learn that mail should be treated gently?
- Two weeks ago the Daily Echo told how a bag of undelivered mail was dumped in the street because the temporary postie did not have a key to the drop-off point.
- In exchange the posties were rewarded with a five-day week and the promise of a pay increase when individual offices made a substantial reduction in staff and met a target for delivery.
- Most posties have a real pride in their work but this is being eroded by management decisions which have proved not to be in the public's favour, least of all the postperson's.
- But for more than 15 years they have often given the town's posties a bit of a battering with vaguely addressed postcards.
- Sadly, the card wasn't for me and neither were the cheques, but the postie had dropped them through my letterbox because the address on the envelope looked like mine.
- It has caused fury among Kellington's 850 residents, who will present a petition to Royal Mail to try to get their favourite postie reinstated.
- Paul changed the blog to P.739 in order to be able to discuss postal issues from a postie's point of view.
- Royal Mail has admitted there have been difficulties in implementing the new one-delivery-a-day system, with posties having to go back out for an unofficial second delivery.
- In order to meet them posties delivering mail by scooter have been forced to exceed legal speed limits, putting themselves and pedestrians at risk.
- The posties get treated a bit like Santa at this time of year: ‘Mince pies, cups of tea, everything,’.
- Increased safety measures by Royal Mail will soon mean cycling posties in Harold will be wearing crash helmets.
- I'll admit that I did see him on television the other night, acting as a postie and trying to deliver a letter to some daft Tory candidate who had forged a picture on his election address.
Origin Late 19th century: abbreviation. |