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- noun UK A
bag used for carryingpost (mail )
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun letter carrier's shoulder bag
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Examples
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Maybe the TIC ` s posters and forcewide emails have arrived in the weekly postbag from the Westminster Policing Head Office.
Invasion Of The Numbersnatchers « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009
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The postbag is full of questionaires from various organisations.
Days Like These 2005
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The postbag is full of questionaires from various organisations.
Archive 2005-04-01 2005
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As I found, MPs tend to refer to their "postbag" in order to emphasize the importance of an issue as e.g. the Simon Hughes did in a recent debate on climate change (see video below):
People.oii 2010
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Finally I could quickly produce a figure showing the development of references to their constituent mail: btw the search is intelligent enough to look for the word "postbag" as well as similar words such as "postbags" or "post bag"
People.oii 2010
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I remember my grandfather taking me to deliver newspapers – I sat on top, in the postbag.
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In those days, he remembers, Ian McCaskill got the biggest postbag.
Chilly outlook forecast for the BBC's weathermen Emine Saner 2010
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You have to ready yourself for the postbag of outraged people telling you no one speaks like that.
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For a small rural district council in Lincolnshire it has been quite a postbag – more than 14,000 complaints registered for one planning application.
'Super-dairy' with 3,770 cows triggers 14,000 planning objections 2011
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"My postbag is filled with heartbreaking stories of law-abiding families whose lives are made a living hell by the actions of a few uncaring, selfish individuals whose thoughtlessness or ruthless criminal actions blight and intimidate whole neighbourhoods."
Landlords to be given new powers to evict 'neighbours from hell' 2011
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