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. 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.
Image:Postoffice1a.jpg|Small-town post office in
Aurora, New YorkFile:Environmental
Resources Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong.jpg|The Old Wan Chai Post Office, Hong Kong
Image:GeneralPostOfficeDublin 20060803
KaihsuTai.jpg|General Post Office, Dublin
Image:Shin-kanazawa post office.jpg|Post
office in Kanazawa, Japan
Image:The Post Office Microcosm
edited.jpg|Clerks at work at the post office in London, circa
1808..
File:Otley Post Office.jpg|The central post
office in Otley
, West Yorkshire, UK
See also
General postal concepts
List of operators of post offices from around the world
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