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n. (post office English)
Usage examples of "post offices".
It was imperative that no one recognize the face of Jeremiah Freel, which stared out from so many wanted posters in so many post offices that it had actually been made into a poster, popular in the dorm rooms of cynical college students.
In other words, the overall effect was precisely the same gray ambience of don't-bother-us superiority that oozes from large post offices and the mausoleums that house the departments of motor vehicles, social services, and similar enterprises throughout the land.
That stopped when the post offices quit accepting boxes without return addresses.
Situated, like those of England, France, and Austria, in the post offices, they employed the full battery of expert openers, seal-forgers, translators, and cryptan-alysts.
They had told him in Tripoli that coin telephones could usually be found at gasoline stations or near supermarkets, and sometimes in post offices, as was the case in Libya and Europe.
DURING the second half of June and the whole of July in 1963 France was rocked by an outbreak of violent crime against banks, jewellers' shops and post offices that was unprecedented at the time and has never been repeated since.
Just Northeast Of The Seine, Beyond The Half-Kilometer- Long Le Port De Plaisance De Paris De 1'Arsenal-A Canal For Recreational Boating-Is A Region Rich With Something A Little Different: Post Offices.
His face sobered into the tired gravity of the portraits that hung in post offices and naval stations.
Have somebody go around to the post offices and pull the change-of-address forms for anybody coming in from those areas.
They'd mix things up, visit the post offices at different times, use disguises, real cloak-and-dagger stuff.
When he, or my other people, take it into their heads to send me their tidings, they go to one of the professional Indian or Native letter-writers who are sitting with their writing desk, paper, pen and ink, outside the Post Offices, and explain to them what shall be in the letter.
Flick looked out at the modest houses with vegetables growing in the front gardens, the country post offices where grumpy postmistresses resentfully doled out penny stamps, and the assorted pubs with their warm beer and battered pianos, and she felt profoundly grateful that the Nazis had not got this far.
And I am sick of planting bombs in post offices and government buildings.