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

Casual interactions at the post office or a coffee shop easily turn into conversations. —Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025

Bella, in her podcast conversation with Trinny Woodall, recalled that once, at a village post office, a shop assistant disdainfully called her a hippie. —Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

The post office, the grocery store, all these communalities that have been compromised by modern technology. —Matt Donnelly, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025

Police later recovered surveillance footage of the package being mailed from a post office in San Francisco, allegedly by a woman who matched the description of a family member Addleman frequently contacted. —Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 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