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
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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
All that the general post office had been informed regarding these routes was that the revenues from them were being held to pay expenses.
From The History of the Post Office in British North America by Sir William Smith
The question was not decided at that time, and it was only when the course pursued by the general post office was so unsatisfactory to Canadians that it was again raised.
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
First: It converts what used to be a mail-sorting hall inside the James A. Farley Building, formerly the General Post Office, across Eighth Avenue from Penn Station.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
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
My father, who worked as a clerk at the General Post Office of Calcutta, died of encephalitis when I was sixteen.
From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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