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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

Then I noticed that there was no mark of the post town of delivery.

From Prester John by Buchan, John

The next post town was Saverne; and our route thither was in every respect the most delightful and gratifying of any, and even of all the routes, collectively, which we had yet experienced.

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

There, I’ll walk with you to the post town.

From Witness to the Deed by Fenn, George Manville

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

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