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Definition of Local post office
1. Noun. A local branch where postal services are available.
Terms within: General Delivery, Poste Restante
Generic synonyms: Arm, Branch, Subdivision
Lexicographical Neighbors of Local Post Office
Literary usage of Local post office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1904)
"There is a Municipal Council in Shanghai which had a local Post Office. ...
With regard to this local post office, the following statement may be of ..."
2. The United States Post Office: Its Past Record, Present Condition, and by Daniel Calhoun Roper (1917)
"Another unfortunate view of the local post office is that it is an aggregation
of sinecures to be jealously retained for local pensioners. ..."
3. The Philatelist: An Illustrated Magazine for Stamp Collectors (1876)
"—The Local Post-office in Shanghai was 7 established in 1865 by the English
Municipal Council there. Although termed a "local" post, it does not confine its ..."
4. Postal Salaries: Hearings, Sixty-sixth Congress, First [second] Session by United States, Congress, Joint Commission on Postal Salaries (1920)
"In addition to the work heretofore shown, terminals relieve the local post office
of the handling of mail for connecting lines, both made up and for ..."
5. A View of the Art of Colonization: With Present Reference to the British by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1849)
"Indeed, the abuses of the local post-office in every colony under pretended
imperial management, are perfectly monstrous; and it seems impossible to prevent ..."
6. A View of the Art of Colonization: With Present Reference to the British by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1849)
"Indeed, the abuses of the local post-office in every colony under pretended
imperial management, are perfectly monstrous; and it seems impossible to prevent ..."
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