general post office

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For 30 years, he was a United States Postal Service employee, toiling mostly in the vast mail-sorting room beyond the imposing columns of what was New York City’s general post office in Midtown Manhattan.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2022

The hall occupies what was once a mail-sorting room in the city’s general post office.

From Washington Post • Aug. 25, 2021

Another 500 occupied the general post office, 200 moved into the Civic Art Gallery and there they stayed one month.

From Time Magazine Archive

The materials for this portion of the history are to be found in the records of the general post office, London, the British Museum, and in the journals of the colonial legislatures.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir

On the other stood the general post office fixed in its determination that its profits should not be diminished, and scanning anxiously every fresh item of expenditure.

From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Smith, William, Sir