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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Are banks, post offices, and shipping services open on Columbus Day and Indigenous Peoples' Day?
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Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Edith Rivera works nights at the post office.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
What To Know Although Post Offices will be closed on Monday, customers can still access a variety of postal products and services at more than 2,600 self-service kiosks located in select post office lobbies nationwide.
—Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
These are post offices, clerks of court, libraries, and local government offices.
—Michelle Baran, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
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Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 13 Oct. 2025
Edith Rivera works nights at the post office.
—Walker Armstrong, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
What To Know Although Post Offices will be closed on Monday, customers can still access a variety of postal products and services at more than 2,600 self-service kiosks located in select post office lobbies nationwide.
—Matthew Robinson, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
These are post offices, clerks of court, libraries, and local government offices.
—Michelle Baran, AFAR Media, 8 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for post office
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“Post office.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/post%20office. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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