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Post office

noun

A local branch where postal services are available. Synonym: local post office.

An independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States. Synonyms: PO, United States Post Office, US Post Office.

A children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters.

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"Post office" Quotes from Famous Books

... I left the house with the manuscript of this book, to which I have given the name of Youth and Egolatry, on my way to the post office. ...

— Youth and Egolatry • Pio Baroja

... glass windows. In the tower of the Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas hangs a bell, cast in Amsterdam in 1731, which for years hung in the Middle Dutch Church in Nassau Street. While the British held New York the bell was taken down and secreted. When the Middle Dutch Church became the Post Office in 1845 the bell was removed, first to the Ninth Street Church, then to the Lafayette Place Church, and later to its present location. The crocketed spire of the Church of St. Nicholas is two hundred and seventy feet high. Within the edifice is a tablet to the soldiers and sailors of the ...

— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice

... other with a crack of a hall between them leading back to the kitchen, the whole structure, only one story high, having more vertical boards than horizontal in its making. But the lettering over the front door bore the brave information that this was the Post Office, the General Merchandise Store, and the ...

— Winning the Wilderness • Margaret Hill McCarter

... The Post office authorities have contracted with Mr. M. E. Crompton, to light up the Post-office at Glasgow for the same price as they have hitherto paid for gas, and there is no doubt that in many instances this arrangement will leave a handsome profit to ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 288 - July 9, 1881 • Various

... unhitched, and put up his horse; but instead of going into the house, he walked down to the post office. He found nothing in his box. He felt better in the open, so he continued to walk. He had told his mother he was going to the city, so he might as well walk that way. Soon the lights gleamed through the coming darkness. He went on with his confused thoughts, ...

— Dorian • Nephi Anderson

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