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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Eventually, the brutalist post office was torn down and replaced with an apartment building.
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Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
There are 66 post offices located in the Pittsburgh area.
—Finch Walker, USA Today, 28 May 2026
From the post office to the registrar's office, there's still time to make your vote count - early.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 27 May 2026
Voters who drop their ballots off at the post office on Tuesday, June 2, Election Day, may not get a postmark that very day.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
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Jack Irvin, PEOPLE, 28 May 2026
There are 66 post offices located in the Pittsburgh area.
—Finch Walker, USA Today, 28 May 2026
From the post office to the registrar's office, there's still time to make your vote count - early.
—Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 27 May 2026
Voters who drop their ballots off at the post office on Tuesday, June 2, Election Day, may not get a postmark that very day.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Mercury News, 27 May 2026
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 1 Jun. 2026.
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