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post town

British  

noun

  1. a town having a main Post Office branch

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Lujan Grisham cordoned off for 10 days the trading post town of Gallup, where infections raced through a detox center, retirement homes and the staff at Rehoboth McKinley Hospital.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 29, 2020

It is pleasing to look back to the time, little more than one hundred years ago, when Bristol was the premier provincial post town.

From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Tombs, Robert Charles

In the result, Olney was given a Post Office of its own, being made in technical language a sub-office under Newport Pagnel, the post town.

From The History of the Post Office From Its Establishment Down to 1836 by Joyce, Herbert

We were not long in reaching Ens, the first post town on the high road from Lintz to Vienna.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall

Give us details about Trelawney, and, if possible, the name of the nearest post town.

From This Is the End by Benson, Stella

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