Meaning of post-office | Babel Free

Definitions

Dated form of post office.

alt-of, dated

Examples

“However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many, more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho’ I did indeed receive⟳ and send⟳ papers by the post⟳, […]”

“The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have⟳ lived to my age, you will begin⟳ to think⟳ letters are never worth going through the rain⟳ for.”

“An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.”

“[…] that he and David Whitmer swore falsley, stole, cheated, lied, sold bogus money, (base⟳ coin,), and also stones and sand for bogus; that letters in the post-office had been opened, read⟳, and destroyed; and that those same men were concerned with a gang of counterfeiters, coiners, and blacklegs.”

“In all cases of this sort⟳, it will be sufficient, that a letter is put⟳ into the post-office early enough after the day of the dishonor of the Note⟳ to go by the next post⟳, whether it be a bi-weekly, or tri-weekly, or a mere weekly conveyance, if it be the ordinary mode of communication.”

“For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think⟳ that there are very few important communications made through it.”

“The post-office is in New South Wales, and the police-barracks in Bananaland.”

“Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close⟳ by was the country store and post-office.”

“Somehow, though, as the parson come⟳ 'long-side the post-office, most anybody wouldn't 'a' liked the way thinks looked. You could sorta smell⟳ somethin' explodey.”

“A telepost is a dispatch of 50 words, between all points, for 25 cents, delivered at the post-office.”

“Halfway down the hill, just beyond the First Church and the post-office, was the rambling, galleried old structure⟳ across the face⟳ of which, and high under its eaves, was painted the name⟳ "Cardhaven Inn."”

““I can’t say⟳ enough about the work⟳ done by our Sheriff’s Department and by our local post-office to help⟳ out,” [Gary] Kendall said.”

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