See post-office on Wiktionary
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"text": "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, […]",
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"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1835 February 4, Asiatic Journal and Monthly Miscellany, page 104:",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "[…] 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.",
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"ref": "1845, Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Law of Promissory Notes and Guaranties of Notes and Checks on Banks and Bankers, page 388:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "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:",
"text": "For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.",
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"ref": "1896, Henry Lawson, “Hungerford”, in While the Billy Boils, Sydney, N.S.W.: Angus and Robertson […], →OCLC, page 41:",
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"ref": "1906, Newell Meeker Calhoun, Litchfield County Sketches, page 134:",
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"ref": "1907, Eleanor Gates, Cupid, the Cow-Punch, page 48:",
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"ref": "1910, United States Congressional Serial Set, volume 5592, page 4:",
"text": "A telepost is a dispatch of 50 words, between all points, for 25 cents, delivered at the post-office.",
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"ref": "1917, James A. Cooper, Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper:",
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