post office

noun

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

Examples of post office in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

This particular post office is not the one in my old neighborhood, But the aesthetic—mid-century state mental hospital—is the same. —Jenny Allen, New Yorker, 19 June 2025

The Burnside post office is a small one-room wooden building profusely planted with flowers all around it. —Robert Finch june 18, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025

That report suggested both parties to allow Canada Post to close more rural post offices, expand community mailboxes, and give the postal service flexibility to hire part-time workers for weekend parcel delivery. —Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 13 June 2025

Memorial Day weekend forecast: 'Severe weather threat' for parts of US Is the post office open on Memorial Day? —Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 23 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1652, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for post office

• interoffice

Kids Definition

post office

noun

1

: postal service

2

: a local branch of the postal service handling the mail for a particular place