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post office
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13 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. post office
  2. General Post Office
  3. highway post office
  4. railway post office
  5. sea post office
  6. sub-post office
  7. traveling post office
  8. post-office address
  9. post-office box
  10. post-office car
  11. post-office order
  12. post-office red
  13. exchange office

post office

noun

Definition of POST OFFICE

1
: a government department or agency handling the transmission of mail
2
: a local branch of a national post office handling the mail for a particular place or area
3
: a game in which a player acting as postmaster or postmistress may exact a kiss from one of the opposite sex as payment for the pretended delivery of a letter
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