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
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Inside the former Venice post office (the one that once housed Joel Silver’s production company) is a small campus of podcast studios, edit bays, production spaces, and communal tables.
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Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
Since the closing of the Wheeler post office branch in July 2023, the residents have had to travel to the Hobart post office to collect their mail.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Next door to the post office, a two-story blue building remains home to the town bookstore and record shop.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2026
The boutique alternative art fair founded last year by gallerist Chris Sharp is returning to its open-format venue in Santa Monica — a historic 1930s Art Deco post office (hence the name).
—Evan Nicole Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
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Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 25 Feb. 2026
Since the closing of the Wheeler post office branch in July 2023, the residents have had to travel to the Hobart post office to collect their mail.
—Shelley Jones, Chicago Tribune, 25 Feb. 2026
Next door to the post office, a two-story blue building remains home to the town bookstore and record shop.
—Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 24 Feb. 2026
The boutique alternative art fair founded last year by gallerist Chris Sharp is returning to its open-format venue in Santa Monica — a historic 1930s Art Deco post office (hence the name).
—Evan Nicole Brown, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2026
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“Post office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post%20office. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.
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