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The nation’s largest retailer said many of the stations - which are like mini post-offices that receive and deliver packages — would be operating during the holiday season.

From Washington Times • Dec. 19, 2023

Special post-offices, eating places and sleeping quarters had to be made ready�and the President issued special orders to Federal and city agents for preserving the Volstead Act.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a new country, rapidly filling up with people, post-routes and post-offices must be provided.

From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Jacobs, Orange

In 1827 there were 101 post-offices and 2,368 miles of established post-route, the number of miles of mail-travel being 455,000 per annum.

From Canada: Its Postage Stamps and Postal Stationery by Howes, Clifton Armstrong

Three meals a day concern us more than do post-offices and federal buildings, of however white marble or however noble fa�ades.

From Behind the Mirrors The Psychology of Disintegration at Washington by Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)