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  • Apr. 593/2 Mr. Atkinson left Moscow early in March, accompanied by a post-office postillion, who had orders to escort him to the Siberian frontier.

    Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles 2009

  • But Republicans rushed this bill to the floor without the promised notice, and, after hours of debate, the presiding officer announced just before the scheduled vote that the House would instead take up: post-office namings.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- In The Darkest Depths of Mordor Chris Weigant 2011

  • The packages are checked by security before they're brought to Giffords' room, where a long row of post-office bins lines the floor.

    Gabrielle Giffords making steady recovery progress 2011

  • While the agency leases most of its space, it owns 8,989 post-office properties, which includes post office buildings, vacant land for post-office development or modular post offices.

    Post Office History for Sale Jennifer Levitz 2011

  • If you think it useful to write to me, within a fortnight from the present date, direct to me at the post-office, Portsmouth.

    Letter 376 2009

  • I ended up with Marcia Baldwin, who worked at the post-office with me, thirty-five to my eighteen, a skinny and lonely smoker and drinker, a good sport, someone who didn't mind having sex in a Santa suit in the basement and playing Twister every night, at least not at first.

    Babies Gary Moshimer 2010

  • In the days when the lottery was paper-based, the State Department's Kentucky Consular Center, which handles the program, created a post-office address with a fictitious city named Migrate, Ky., putting the address on applications.

    A Losing Ticket in the American Lottery Miriam Jordan 2011

  • In the very last talk we ever had together, the evening of November 21, 1916, he was all afire with enthusiasm over his social creation ... and was giving orders for the selection of a site for a school house on the ranch, a store, a post-office ....

    Jack and Charmian London's Grave Site 2010

  • An Arizona Republic investigation in 2006 raised questions about the size and holdings of Nakami, which used a Scottsdale post-office box as its company business address.

    Operator of Christian non-profit indicted in fraud 2009

  • This will be but a say-so parcel, it being principally intended to cheat the post-office, and you must forward the enclosed letters according to their directions.

    Letter 323 2009

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