Postal village

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A postal village is generally a community, settlement, or hamlet (place) that has a post office and is designated as such by the postal service.

This term seems to have been most common in the latter half of the 19th century when it was in common use in maps and gazetteers, variously abbreviated p.v., P.V., PV, and p-v. The term is generally not used when the community is incorporated with its own village or other municipal government.