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Postal (film)
Postal is a 2007 American-German-Canadian action comedy directed by Uwe Boll, loosely adapted from the Postal video games and starring Zack Ward, Dave Foley, and Verne Troyer.
Postal (video game)
Postal (1997) is a top-down 2D shooter by Running With Scissors starring the Postal Dude. Banned in 14 countries, blacklisted in the US, scored 56 on Metacritic, later open-sourced and remade as Postal Redux.
Postal 2
Postal 2, also known as Postal II, is a 2003 first-person adventure game by Running With Scissors about the Postal Dude completing errands in Paradise, Arizona.
Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland
Postal addresses in the Republic of Ireland, also called Irish addresses, are used by An Post and since July 2015 carry Eircode, a unique seven-character postcode (3-character Routing Key plus 4-character Unique Identifier) assigned per premises, addressing the country's 35% non-unique addresses.
Postal code
A postal code is a series of letters or digits in a postal address that helps sort and deliver mail, used by around 130 countries.
Postal codes in Canada
Canadian postal codes are six-character alphanumeric codes in "ANA NAN" form assigned by Canada Post to every address, introduced in Ottawa in 1971 and nationwide by 1973.
Postal codes in France
French postal codes (codes postaux) are five-digit La Poste delivery-zone codes introduced in 1972: first two digits give the département, last three the distributing post office; one code may cover several communes and Monaco is included.
Postal codes in Saudi Arabia
Postal codes in Saudi Arabia are five-digit codes, each digit geographically significant, part of the National Address (العنوان الوطني) system launched by Saudi Post in 2013, with Short Address codes and mandatory use from 2026.
Postal codes in Singapore
Postal codes in Singapore are six-digit numbers administered by SingPost, introduced in 1995 and 1996, where each code identifies a single delivery point such as a house or building.
Postal codes in Sri Lanka
Postal codes in Sri Lanka are five-digit numeric codes assigned by the Department of Posts to postal towns and delivery areas, introduced in 1997; Colombo 08 is 00800.
Postal codes in Vietnam
Postal codes in Vietnam (mã bưu chính) are five-digit codes for wards, communes, and postal service points, introduced 1 January 2018 and required on many shipping and customs forms.
Postal Index Number
The Postal Index Number (PIN), commonly called a PIN code, is the six-digit postal code used by India Post to sort and deliver mail, introduced in 1972.
Postal rates and periodical-class regulation of magazines
Postal periodical-class regulation is the set of USPS rules deciding which magazines mail at discounted Periodicals rates, backed by a subsidy of about $500 million a year.
Postal relay system (yizhan)
The postal relay system (yizhan, 驿站) was the Tang dynasty's state network of relay stations about thirty li apart, carrying government documents and supplying horses, boats, and lodging to officials.
Postal Savings Bank of China (中国邮政储蓄银行)
Postal Savings Bank of China (中国邮政储蓄银行), also called PSBC, is a Beijing-based state-owned retail bank with roughly 40,000 outlets serving more than 680 million customers.
Postal voting
Postal voting (mail or absentee voting) lets voters cast ballots by mail instead of at polling stations. Distinguished by excuse requirements varying by country, signature and chain-of-custody safeguards, very low measured fraud rates, and mixed turnout effects.
Postal workers' unions
Postal workers' unions are trade unions representing postal service workers, including mail carriers, sorters, and counter clerks, organized as single national unions or separate craft unions.
Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International
The Postal, Telegraph and Telephone International, later renamed Communications International, was a world federation of postal and telecommunications trade unions from 1911 until it merged into UNI in 2000.
Postaxial acrofacial dysostosis
Postaxial acrofacial dysostosis (POADS), or Miller syndrome, Genée-Wiedemann syndrome, is a rare autosomal recessive DHODH-related disorder with mandibulofacial dysostosis, cup-shaped ears, eyelid coloboma, and absent fifth fingers and toes.
Postaxial polydactyly of fingers
Postaxial polydactyly of fingers (ulnar polydactyly, ICD-11 LB78.2) is duplication of the fifth finger, classified as type A (well-formed digit) or type B (rudimentary pedunculated digit), with PAPA1-PAPA11 loci including GLI3 and ZNF141.
Postaxial polydactyly type A
Postaxial polydactyly type A (PAPA, ORPHA:93334) is a congenital duplication of the fifth digit with a well-formed extra digit articulating with the fifth or sixth metacarpal/metatarsal; genetically heterogeneous (GLI3, ZNF141, IQCE and others), treated by surgical excision.
Postaxial polydactyly type B
Postaxial polydactyly type B (ulnar polydactyly, Temtamy-McKusick type B) is a rudimentary, non-functional extra fifth digit attached by a soft tissue pedicle, usually treated by ligation or surgical excision.
Postaxial polydactyly-anterior pituitary anomalies-facial dysmorphism syndrome
Postaxial polydactyly-anterior pituitary anomalies-facial dysmorphism syndrome, also called Culler-Jones syndrome (OMIM 615849), is a rare autosomal dominant GLI2-related disorder with congenital hypopituitarism, postaxial polydactyly, and midline facial defects, distinct from the more severe HPE9.
Postbiotics trial
Postbiotics trial: clinical studies of heat-inactivated Lactobacillus paracasei D3.5 (LpD3.5, PoZibio), a postbiotic per ISAPP's 2021 definition; a 13-person open-label pilot in older adults and the LISA-I randomized MCI trial (NCT07794956).
PostBQP
PostBQP is a quantum complexity class, defined by Scott Aaronson in 2004, of decision problems solvable by polynomial-time quantum circuits with postselection; it equals the classical class PP.
PostBus (Switzerland)
PostBus, known as PostAuto, CarPostal, or AutoPostale, is the Swiss national regional bus company, a subsidiary of Swiss Post operating about 1,000 routes since 1906.
Postcard
Postcard: rectangular card mailed without an envelope, image on front, message, address, and postage on back; also called post card; first issued by Austria in 1869; golden age 1898–1915; collecting it is deltiology.
Postcard from Earth
Postcard from Earth is Darren Aronofsky's 2023 immersive sci-fi film, the first production made for the Las Vegas Sphere, shot on the 18K Big Sky camera and shown on a 16K, 160,000-square-foot LED screen with haptic 4D effects.
Postcardiotomy right ventricular failure
Postcardiotomy right ventricular failure (ICD-10 I97.1, ORPHA:263352) is acute severe right ventricular failure with hemodynamic instability after cardiac surgery, incidence 0.04-2.9%, mortality up to 75%, managed with inotropes, pulmonary vasodilators, VA-ECMO, or RVAD.
Postcardiotomy syndrome
Postcardiotomy syndrome, also called postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS), is an inflammatory illness of the heart and lung linings after cardiac surgery, causing fever and chest pain days to weeks later.