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Post office   /poʊst ˈɔfəs/   Listen
Post office

noun
1.
A local branch where postal services are available.  Synonym: local post office.
2.
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.
3.
A children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters.



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"Post office" Quotes from Famous Books



... the amount is to get a draft at your bank, or get a Post Office Money Order or Express Money Order. If currency is sent, be sure ...
— Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured • Chas. Cluthe & Sons

... had said that she wanted a safe, steady horse; one that would not run, balk, or kick. She would not have bought any horse, indeed, had it not been that the way to the post office, the store, the church, and everywhere else, had grown so unaccountably long—Miss Prue was approaching her sixtieth birthday. The horse had been hers now a month, and thus far it had been everything that a dignified, somewhat timid spinster could wish it to be. ...
— Across the Years • Eleanor H. Porter

... in accordance with his usual custom, Slyme called at the Post Office to put some of his wages in the bank. Like most other 'Christians', he believed in taking thought for the morrow, what he should eat and drink and wherewithal he was to be clothed. He thought it wise to layup ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell

... known—moodily seized the late Estelle St. Clair under his arm and withdrew from the dingy back storeroom. Down between the counters of the emporium he went with his fair burden and left her outside its portals, staring from her very definitely lashed eyes across the slumbering street at the Simsbury post office. She was tastefully arrayed in one of those new checked gingham house frocks so heatedly mentioned a moment since by her lawful owner, and across her chest Merton Gill now imposed, with no tenderness of manner, the appealing legend, "Our Latest for Milady; only $6.98." He returned ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson

... Historical Society and a well-known resident of Tucson—hired myself and another man to do assessment work on the old Salero mine, which had been operated before the war. Our conveyance was an old ambulance owned by Lord & Williams, who, as I have said, kept the only store and the post office in Tucson. The outfit was driven by "Old Bill" Sniffen, who will doubtless be remembered by many Arizona pioneers. We picked up on the way "Old Man" Benedict, another familiar character, who kept the stage station ...
— Arizona's Yesterday - Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer • John H. Cady


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