general post office
noun
(in the U.S. postal system) the main post office of a city, county, etc., that also has branch post offices. G.P.O., GPO
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General Post Officenoun(in Britain until 1969) the department of the central Government that provided postal and telephone services
general post office
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General Post Office
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noun
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(in Britain until 1969) the department of the central Government that provided postal and telephone services
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the main post office in a locality
Etymology
Origin of general post office
First recorded in 1650–60
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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
Here are situated Queen’s House, the governor’s residence; the secretariat or government offices, and other government buildings, such as the fine general post office and the customs house.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
There were no accounts between the island post office and the general post office.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Sir William Smith
It turned out to be the Fullerton Hotel, which first opened in 1928 as the General Post Office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2025
She soon went to work for the General Post Office, which ran Britain’s telephone system, and was trained as a switchboard operator.
From Seattle Times ● May 30, 2024
Nearby is the General Post Office, where, shortly before the 1916 Easter Rising, Patrick Pearse stood outside its doors and read the impassioned Proclamation of the Irish Republic.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 14, 2019
On Easter Monday 1916, the rebels occupied key buildings such as the General Post Office in Dublin.
From BBC ● Mar. 27, 2016
In terms of grandeur the building fell someplace between the London General Post Office and Buckingham Palace, which is to say it was very grand indeed.
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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