sub-post office

British

noun

(in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office

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In 2007, Mary Philp was suspended by the Post Office over allegations of missing funds at her sub-post office branch in Auchtermuchty, Fife.

From BBC • May 11, 2022

Louise Dar told the inquiry she was forced to pay £44,000 which was wrongly deemed to have gone missing from her sub-post office in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire.

From BBC • May 11, 2022

I don’t want to have to operate a sub-post office to buy clothes.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2017

The following is from the Bristol Times and Mirror of February, 1893, and has reference to a little inaccuracy on the part of a telegraph assistant employed at a Bristol sub-post office.

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

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