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post office

[pohst aw-fis, of-is] / ˈpoʊst ˌɔ fɪs, ˌɒf ɪs /


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I remember being at the post office with bins and bins, stressing out, trying to put stamps on everything, trying to get these out.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

Patients who had signed off on the two-drug treatment but whose pills hadn’t yet reached the post office had to be recontacted to consent to receiving misoprostol alone and reeducated on how to use it.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

She took it to her local post office but was told Lloyds Banking Group customers could no longer pay in cheques through the Post Office after the service was stopped in January.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

She was a retired former post office worker living in one of the poorest districts in the country near Hungary’s eastern border with Romania.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026

I shouldn’t have run out of the post office when I did.

From "What If It's Us" by Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera




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