Post office

The main post office in Oxford, England, UK

Automatic sorters inside a major postal facility.

A post office is a facility authorised by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.^[1] Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies. In addition, some post offices offer non-postal services such as passport applications and other government forms, car tax purchase, money orders, and banking services.

The back rooms of a post office are where mail is processed for delivery. Mail may also be processed in other post offices that are not open to the general public.

The Post Office Ltd. is a retail company in the United Kingdom; formerly part of the postal service Royal Mail, it became a separate entity in 1981.

Image gallery

For an extensive collection of images of post office buildings, see links below.

Small-town post office in Aurora, New York	The Old Wan Chai Post Office, Hong Kong	General Post Office, Dublin	Post office in Kanazawa, Japan
Clerks at work at the post office in London, circa 1808..	The central post office in Otley, West Yorkshire, UK	Historical plaques for the Little Post Office, Martinsville, Virginia, built 1893	Post office of Pichilemu, Chile

See also

A village post office at Shere, England

• Cabinet noir
• London Post Office Railway
• Old Post Office
• Post office box
• Post Office RiflesDusty Ahmed Agyenkwa's post office

References

External links

• GRC Database Information: worldwide post office website links
• Photos of post offices around the world
• Royalmailchat
• The British Postal Museum & Archive
• United Kingdom Post Office site
• United States Postal Service
• Universal Postal Union