postombud
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From post (“post, postal”) + ombud (“ombud, representative”).
Noun edit
postombud n
- (obsolete, 1933 to 1980s) a post office proxy, often done as a sideline by shopkeepers or sometimes by lantbrevbärare (“rural letter carriers”) in the kitchen
- (since 2006) a post office proxy, often located at the förbutik (“pre-store”) of a grocery store; provides services such as selling postage plus sending and receiving parcels and registered mail
- Ditt paket kan hämtas hos närmaste postombud.
- Your parcel can be collected at nearest postal representative.
- a business that performs this service
- Hemköp är vårat lokala postombud.
- Hemköp is our local postal representative.
Declension edit
| Declension of postombud | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | postombud | postombudet | postombud | postombuden |
| Genitive | postombuds | postombudets | postombuds | postombudens |
See also edit
- frimärksombud (“simplest post office proxy”)
- företagscenter (“business post centre”)
- spelombud (“bookmaker proxy”)