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Noun
post-office (plural post-offices)
- Archaic form of post office.
1771–1790, Benjamin Franklin, “The Autobiography ”, in John Bigelow, editor, Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. , Philadelphia, Pa.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott & Co., published 1868, →OCLC, pages 188–189:However, as he kept the post-office, it was imagined he had better opportunities of obtaining news; his paper was thought a better distributer of advertisements than mine, and therefore had many, more, which was a profitable thing to him, and a disadvantage to me; for, tho’ I did indeed receive and send papers by the post, […]
1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVI, in Emma: , volume II, London: for John Murray, →OCLC, pages 306–307:The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.
1835 February, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104:An embezzlement of government money to the extent of about Rs. 2,000 was discovered some time ago in the post-office here, between the baboo, mutsuddy and mohurrer.
1842, Daniel Parish Kidder, Mormonism and the Mormons: A Historical View of the Rise and Progress of the Sect Self-styled Latter-Day Saints, Carlton & Lanahan:[…] that he and David Whitmer swore falsley, stole, cheated, lied, sold bogus money, (base coin,), and also stones and sand for bogus; that letters in the post-office had been opened, read, and destroyed; and that those same men were concerned with a gang of counterfeiters, coiners, and blacklegs.
1845, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes and Guaranties of Notes and Checks on Banks and Bankers, page 388:In all cases of this sort, it will be sufficient, that a letter is put into the post-office early enough after the day of the dishonor of the Note to go by the next post, whether it be a bi-weekly, or tri-weekly, or a mere weekly conveyance, if it be the ordinary mode of communication.
1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, pages 101–102:For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134:Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.
1907, Eleanor Gates, Cupid, the Cow-Punch, page 48:Somehow, though, as the parson come 'long-side the post-office, most anybody wouldn't 'a' liked the way thinks looked. You could sorta smell somethin' explodey.
1910, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 5592, page 4:A telepost is a dispatch of 50 words, between all points, for 25 cents, delivered at the post-office.
1917, James A. Cooper, Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper:Halfway down the hill, just beyond the First Church and the post-office, was the rambling, galleried old structure across the face of which, and high under its eaves, was painted the name "Cardhaven Inn."