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United States Post Office   /junˈaɪtəd steɪts poʊst ˈɔfəs/   Listen
United States Post Office

noun
1.
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



... held in the strictest confidence, were sold to other lines of business for five cents each. He held the religious press up to the scorn of church members for accepting advertisements which the publishers knew and which he proved to be not only fraudulent, but actually harmful. He called the United States Post Office authorities to account for accepting and ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok (1863-1930)

... 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



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