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/junˈaɪtəd steɪts poʊst ˈɔfəs/ Listen

United States Post Office

noun

An independent agency of the federal government responsible for mail delivery (and sometimes telecommunications) between individuals and businesses in the United States. Synonyms: PO, Post Office, US Post Office.

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"United States Post Office" Quotes from Famous Books

... has just explained in Blackwood how he established a sort of unofficial censorship of morals at the English Post Office. In the United States an official censorship of mailed matter exists, and the United States Post Office can and does regularly examine the literature entrusted to it, and can and does reject what it deems inimical to the morals of the native land of Jay Gould, James Gordon Bennett, J.D. Rockefeller, and the regretted Harriman. ...

— Books and Persons - Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 • Arnold Bennett

Words linked to "United States Post Office" : independent agency