Post Office

Definition: Post Office

Post Office

Noun

1. A local branch of the Post Office Department.

2. The federal government department responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications).

3. A children's game in which kisses are exchanged for pretended letters.

Domain	Definition
General	Agency handling the transmission of mail. Source: European Union. (references)
Post & Telecom	Post office counter operated by postal administration itself or on a sub-contract basis by self-employed operators where users can buy the means of posting items and then actually post those items; provides access to the postal services. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A post office is a facility (in most countries, a government one) where the public can purchase postage stamps for mailing correspondence or merchandise, and also drop off or pick up packages or other special-delivery items.

Post offices also rent post-office boxes to people and businesses who prefer not to have mail delivered to their home or office.

In many countries, post offices include other functions, such as a place to pick up various government forms, to apply for passports, to send money to others, etc. In some countries, the post office functions as a financial bank and/or a central place to use public telephones.

The back rooms of a post office are where mail is processed for delivery. Mail may also be processed in other post offices that are not open to the general public.

Synonym: Post Office

Synonym: local post office (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Government	Office of the president, office of the prime minister, cabinet; senate, house of representatives, parliament; council; courts, supreme court; state, interior, labor, health and human services, defense, education, agriculture, justice, commerce, treasury; Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI; Central Intelligence Agency, CIA; National Institutes of Health, NIH; Postal Service, Post Office; Federal Aviation Administration, FAA.
Messenger	Mail, overnight mail, express mail, next-day delivery; post, post office; letter bag; delivery service; United Parcel Service, UPS; Federal Express, Fedex.
Money	Paper money, greenback; major denomination, minor denomination; money order, postal money order, Post Office order; bank note; bond; bill, bill of exchange; order, warrant, coupon, debenture, exchequer bill, assignat; blueback, hundi, shinplaster.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	I have in the past noticed a marked discrepancy between these post office signs and the activities carried on beneath. (Monty Python's Flying Circus; writing credit: Douglas Adams; Graham Chapman) I work for the post office so you know I'm not stable! (Jingle All the Way; writing credit: Randy Kornfield) Or cash 'em in at the Post Office. (The Office; writing credit: Ricky Gervais; Stephen Merchant)
Movie/TV Titles	Abachurina Post Office (1973) Post Office Investigator (1949) Parrotville Post Office (1935) Lovers' Post Office (1914) U.S.P.O. Coach at Rural Post Office (1903)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	2002 National 5-Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory (National Five Digit Zip Code and Post Office Directory, 2002) (reference) How to Screw the Post Office (reference) Jonathan Goes to the Post Office (reference) The Cat Who Played Post Office [UNABRIDGED] (reference) The Post Office (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	National Five-Digit Zip Code And Post Office Directory - Softbound (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Miss Post Office (Panienka Z Poste Restante) (reference) Post Office Exams Review (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech	The Jolly Post Office Ages 4-8 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	NIOSH, old post office building, Cincinnati, Ohio. Credit: CDC.		East (front) elevation. Photograph by Duane Garrett, 1976. (Reproduction Number: HABS ID,8-IDCI,10-1) When Idaho City's post office burnt to the ground in 1867, work on this new building began almost immediately. Completed in less than one month, the new post office and general store incorporated many fire-prevention measures, including metal shutters and doors. The new building also featured an attic floor of brick covered with earth for extra fire protection. Today, the building is the Boise Basin Museum, which is dedicated to Idaho's Gold Rush. Credit: Library of Congress.
	Base Hospital No. 9. Chateauroux, France : East Drive looking North, with Post Office and Commissary Sales Stores on the left. Credit: National Library of Medicine.		Photographed during the Civil War by Hord & Harmon, Post Office Building, Dayton, Ohio. He was Pilot of USS Ouachita in 1864-65. His uniform includes shoulder straps bearing a six-spoke steering wheel insignia. Credit: NAVY.
	Checks "V-Mail" microfilmed letters for legibility, using a film viewer, before the films are sent on the the war zone in the south Pacific. Photographed at the "V-Mail" Division, Fleet Post Office, San Francisco, California, 13 June 1945. Credit: NAVY.		Architectural drawing for a post office ("U.S. Post Office"), Holton Lane, Langley Park, Maryland. Credit: Library of Congress.
	African Americans standing outside brick building "Frien[dship] Phar[macy]" and "Post Office", with horse-drawn carriage in street. Credit: Library of Congress.		Race between Bennett and Greely for the Post Office stakes. Credit: Library of Congress.
	New method of assorting the mail, as practised by Southern slave-holders, or attack on the Post Office, Charleston, S.C. Credit: Library of Congress.		Lenin Prospekt, with constructivist Main Post Office (1934) (far left), and the neoclassical first city theater (1847), Ekaterinburg, Russia. Credit: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		However, the equipment may be demanded and used by a subsidiary of VNPT or a provincial level post office. (references)
		For equipment dealers, they must negotiate and plan with both entities - the monopoly owner VNPT and the actual end user that is most likely a direct subsidiary of VNPT or a provincial level post office. (references)
		Architectural design services for government office buildings, post office buildings, and resort lodges, including specialty consulting services (e.g., landscaping and specific consulting services for telecommunications facilities). (references)
Economic History	Kuwait	Year two initiates privatization of post office, telegraph, and telecommunications services. (references)
	The Holy See	It has its own post office, commissary, bank, railway station, electrical generating plant, and publishing house The Vatican also issues its own coins, stamps, and passports. (references)
	Uk	A decision could be made by the end of 2001. In June 1999, the government decided to convert the Post Office into a public limited corporation, renewing the prospects that it, too, will be partially sold off. (references)
Human Rights	Hong Kong	However, interception of communications can be, and is, conducted under the Telecommunications Ordinance and the Post Office Ordinance. (references)
	Cote d'Ivoire	Government authorities monitored letters and parcels at the post office for potential criminal activity; they are believed widely to monitor private correspondence, although no evidence of this has been produced. (references)
	United Kingdom	In May a north London post office was bombed. (references)
Trade	Netherlands	When sending goods through the mail, the exporter should inquire at the post office as to the proper documentation needed for mail shipments. (references)
	Bolivia	An authorized customs broker must intervene for parcel post shipments valued at over US$100. A private person may receive parcel post valued up to US$100 without the intervention of a customs broker just by filing out a customs form at the post office. (references)
	Kenya	The sector comprises: The Central Bank of Kenya (CBK); 48 domestic and foreign commercial banks with branches, agencies and other outlets throughout the country; 11 NBFIs with an excellent branch network in Kenya's major cities; 6 building societies; 37 insurance companies; 7 development finance companies providing long-term finance; the Post Office Savings Bank, with a large network of branches around the country; and over 1,500 poorly-structured savings and credit unions. (references)
Travel	Taiwan	Telex and facsimile facilities are also available at the Chungwa Telecom-International Business Group (CHT-I), while an electronic mail service that enables users to send their own facsimile messages can be found in every post office on the island. (references)
	Barbados	Many U.S.-based courier and package delivery services operate in Barbados, and the Barbados Post Office has an express delivery service that guarantees delivery within 48 hours. (references)
	Chad	All mail is distributed to a post office box number or "Boite Postale." Mail service departs N'Djamena to Europe and elsewhere three times per week. (references)
Worker Rights	Mozambique	The Constitution explicitly provides for the right to strike, with the exception of civil servants, police, military personnel, and other essential services (which include sanitation, fire fighting, air traffic control, health care, water, electricity, fuel, post office, telecommunications, and funeral services). (references)
	South Africa	On March 5 in Johannesburg, during a 2-week strike by postal workers, police shot at a crowd of post office workers who attacked non-striking workers and injured one person. (references)
	Croatia	Negotiations were in progress between management of the Croatian Electrical Company (HEP) and the Croatian Post Office (HP) when the Government issued instructions to management to suspend talks, allegedly in order to wait for the conclusion of agreements with all public employees, and with the expectation of a substantial reduction of their salaries. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
George Washington	1789-1797	The establishment of the militia, of a mint, of standards of weights and measures, of the post office and post roads are subjects which I presume you will resume of course, and which are abundantly urged by their own importance.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	When I looked down at the enormous United States Post Office building I could just see the excitement on the faces of the bureaucrats--knowing they would soon be managing our national health care system!
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "post office": army post office ♦ central post office ♦ general post office ♦ go to the post office ♦ local post office ♦ main post office ♦ post office box ♦ post office counter ♦ post Office Department ♦ post office of destination ♦ post office problem ♦ post Office Protocol ♦ post office substation. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "post office"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		poskantoor (post-office). (various references)

Albanian		postë (mail, post), zyrë e vogël postare, zyrë e postës. (various references)

Arabic		‏مكتب البريد, ‏دائرة البريد. (various references)

Asturian		oficina de correos. (various references)

Basque		posta. (various references)

Bulgarian		вид салонна игра, министерство на пощите, пощенска станция (posthouse), поща (mail, post). (various references)

Cebuano		pahatanan. (various references)

Chinese		郵局 . (various references)

Cornish		lytherva. (various references)

Czech		poštovní úřad, pošta (mail, post). (various references)

Danish		posthus (post-office). (various references)

Dutch		postkantoor (post-office). (various references)

Esperanto		poŝtoficejo (post-office), poŝtejo (post-office). (various references)

Faeroese		posthús. (various references)

Finnish		postitoimipaikka, posti (mail, post). (various references)

French		bureau de poste. (various references)

Frisian		postkantoar. (various references)

German		Postamt, post (mail, mailing, post). (various references)

Greek		ταχυδρομικό κατάστημα, ταχυδρομικό γραφείο, ταχυδρομείο (mail, mail office, post). (various references)

Hebrew		בית �"ואר, בי �"ואר. (various references)

Hungarian		posta (mail, post, postal, relay station), postahivatal (post). (various references)

Icelandic		pósthús. (various references)

Inuktitut		titiqaqkuvik. (various references)

Italian		ufficio postale, posta (mail, odds, parlay, post). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		郵便局 , ポーランド語 (beeper, death, drink, drip, fall drop by drop, fried potato, mail box, making up only parts of one's face instead of doing a full make-up job, pager, pocket, pocket bell, pocket bike, pocket computer, pocket money, pocket monster, pocketable, pocket-size, pod, poem, poetic, poetical, poetry, point, point and shoot, point getter, point of sales system, point of view, point size, pointer, pointing, poison, pole, Polish, poll, polling, ponytail, pop, pop art, pop country, pop fly, pop gospel, pop jazz, popgroup, poppy, pops, popular, popular music, pop-up, pop-up window, POS system, position, positioning, positive, positive film, positron, possibility, post, post-, postcard, post-doc, poster, poster color, poster session, poster value, Post-It, postmaster, postmodern, post-process, postscript, post-season, pot, potato, potato chip, potato chips, pot-au-feu, potency, potential, pottering, soup, to break down, to fail). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ポストオフィス , ゆうび�"きょく. (various references)

Kongo		posta. (various references)

Luganda		posita. (various references)

Macedonian		poshta. (various references)

Manx		oik post. (various references)

Maori		poutaapeta. (various references)

Norwegian		postkontor (post-office). (various references)

Occitan		pòsta, corrièr. (various references)

Papiamen		pòstkantor. (various references)

Pig Latin		ostpay officeay

Portuguese		estação de correios, estação de correio, edifício dos correios, da noite (pneumatic), correios (post offices), correio (courier, mail, maim, post, postmark, runner), agência postal. (various references)

Provencal		burèu de pòsta. (various references)

Romanian		poştå (mail, post), oficiu poştal (post). (various references)

Romansch		uffizi postal. (various references)

Russian		министерство почт, почтовый (mail, postal), почтовая контора, почта (mail, post, postoffice). (various references)

Samoan		falemeli. (various references)

Scottish		postachd (nf.ind. the business of the post office). (various references)

Sepedi		posong. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pošta (mail, post, posthouse). (various references)

Spanish		oficina de correos, correos (post, the postoffice). (various references)

Swedish		postkontor (post-office). (various references)

Tswana		poso. (various references)

Turkish		postane. (various references)

Welsh		llythyrdy. (various references)

Zulu		iposihhovisi, iliposihhovisi. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-o-o-p-s-t"
	-3 letters: coiffes, cooties, footies, footsie, isotope, offices, poetics, tipoffs, toffies.
	-4 letters: cestoi, coiffe, coopts, cootie, copies, ficoes, footie, octopi, office, offset, optics, otiose, picots, poetic, potsie, septic, setoff, soffit, softie, sopite, tipoff, topics.
	-5 letters: cesti, cites, coffs, coifs, coofs, coops, coopt, coots, copes, copse, coset, cosie, cotes, epics, escot, estop, feist, fices, fiefs, fifes.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 6F 73 74 4F 66 66 69 63 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 00100000 01001111 01100110 01100110 01101001 01100011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#111 &#115 &#116 &#32 &#79 &#102 &#102 &#105 &#99 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 006F 0073 0074 004F 0066 0066 0069 0063 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
POB	English	Post office box	Computing
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
post office	6,754	san diego post office	39
us post office	6,324	post office rate	35
united state post office	4,018	united state post office zip code	35
post office job	227	us post office change of address	34
location of post office	162	us post office rate	34
post office of canada	149	hong kong post office	34
u s post office	135	unites state post office	33
post office zip code	129	passport post office	32
post office box	111	new york city post office	32
us post office zip code	108	nyc post office	31
post office change of address	105	post office web site	30
us post office location	96	california post office	30
united post office	75	ny post office	28
canadian post office	56	united state post office job	26
usa post office	52	post office address	25
post office employment	52	post office stamp	23
post office locator	51	post office of singapore	21
new york post office	51	united state post office employment	21
post office hours	51	united state post office location	21
us post office job	39	post office of maryland	19
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Post Office

Definition: Post Office

Post Office

Noun

Specialty Definition: Post Office

Specialty Definition: Post office

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Post Office

Synonym: Post Office

Synonyms within Context: Post Office

Government

Messenger

Money

Crosswords: Post Office

Modern Usage: Post Office

Screenplays

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Post Office

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

High Tech

Image Slideshow: Post Office

Photos:Post Office

Illustrations:Post Office

Computer Images:Post Office

Photo Album: Post Office

Non-Fiction Usage: Post Office

Speeches: Post Office

George Washington

Ronald Reagan

Expressions: Post Office

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Post Office

Modern Translation: Post Office

Afrikaans

Albanian

Arabic

Asturian

Basque

Bulgarian

Cebuano

Chinese

Cornish

Czech

Danish

Dutch

Esperanto

Faeroese

Finnish

French

Frisian

German

Greek

Hebrew

Hungarian

Icelandic

Inuktitut

Italian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Kongo

Luganda

Macedonian

Manx

Maori

Norwegian

Occitan

Papiamen

Pig Latin

Portuguese

Provencal

Romanian

Romansch

Russian

Samoan

Scottish

Sepedi

Serbo-Croatian

Spanish

Swedish

Tswana

Photos:
Post Office

Illustrations:
Post Office

Computer Images:
Post Office