How to Use post office in a Sentence

post office

noun
Definition of post officenext
Synonyms for post officenext
  • On the way to the post office, Nichol received a call from the Maui P.D.
    — Carolyn Kormann, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The post office did a check of their places and there’s nothing there.
    — Lisa Phu, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • The post office quietly closed in 1951, a sign of things to come.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 13 July 2023
  • The ground lease for the post office on Center Street is set to expire in May 2025.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Once that lease ends, the city will become the post office’s landlord.
    — Maritza Dominguez, The Arizona Republic, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Over the years, the house has functioned as a post office, inn, stagecoach stop and town hall.
    — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The post office tried to play Switzerland and split the difference.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The project was plagued by delays but started rolling out to post offices in 1999.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Paulson, who has overseen the post office for 18 years, prefers the city of today over the time-zone tension of the past.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2022
  • Passersby will see the post office start to come down next month, Harpole said.
    — Jamie Goldberg, oregonlive, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Go to your local post office, fill out a form and include dates you will be gone.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The post office will be closed on June 19th in observance of Juneteenth.
    — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 19 June 2023
  • This is not the same as a home address and could include post office boxes, the complaint notes.
    — Gretchen Morgenson, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The last batch of tax bills in Miami-Dade are hitting the post office Monday.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, Sun Sentinel, 28 Oct. 2022
  • Arthur is spending the summer in NYC and meets Ben, carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend's things, at the post office.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Andy: To the folks yelling at workers at the post office, or any person working in a public space: please stop!
    — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Adam Janus, a burly post office supervisor, had the day off work.
    — Chicago Tribune, 22 Sep. 2022
  • All the volunteers need to do is show up in their reindeer antlers, says Maksym Slodzek, a member of the team, and the post office workers hand over the parcels.
    — Noah Robertson, The Christian Science Monitor, 21 Dec. 2022
  • My grocery store, dive bar, coffee shop, post office, and pet store are all within a mile of my house.
    — WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022
  • Even the pen, used everywhere from post offices to combat front lines, has not changed.
    — Janet Shamlian, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2023
  • Big customers include Aniak stores, restaurants, the airport, the post office and the school.
    — Sunni Bean, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2023
  • In ten years in Congress, the only bill Amash sponsored that became law was to rename a post office.
    — Dominic Pino, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
  • So the Major takes it upon himself to shoot up the post office to stop all telegram traffic.
    — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2022
  • The couple established a lending library in the post office.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The round-trip commute between the two post offices, a drive through Sparrows Point and across Bear Creek, is just under 40 minutes.
    — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Many have held out hope, traversing Maui with posters of the missing, placing them in post offices, hotels, parks and shelters.
    — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • But the thing is, the post office probably would deliver it anyway.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 Oct. 2022
  • This will ensure that your packages are stored safely at your local post office for up to 30 days.
    — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Go inside a post office and place your mail inside a receptacle or hand it to a clerk.
    — Keith Bierygolick, The Enquirer, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The local post office had warned them that Cazes never signed for packages himself, that his wife often came to the door instead.
    — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2022

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