Post-office

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, […]

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.

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.

[…] 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.

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.

For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

The post-office is in New South Wales, and the police-barracks in Bananaland.

Outside the door were a bed of fennel — meeting seed — and some rose bushes. Close by was the country store and post-office.

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.

A telepost is a dispatch of 50 words, between all points, for 25 cents, delivered at the post-office.