post-offices

Almost all letter-writers are men, and they generally sit with their type-writers and letter pads in front of post-offices and type forms or write the personal correspondence for people who are illiterate.

Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The marrow of storytelling 2009

In banks and post-offices, motor-cyclists are required, for security reasons, to remove their helmets.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

In banks and post-offices, motor-cyclists are required, for security reasons, to remove their helmets.

Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

A shopping mall has everything: public bathrooms; nice common spaces with waterfalls, play areas, etc.; various other spaces suitable for schools, libraries and other public functions; entertainment venues; and even, occasionally actual post-offices.

There's No Place Like Home.. and it was right there all the time... 2008

His eye was struck by the appearance of the stamps — long, square, and triangular, in red and blue ink, which distinguished a letter that had come through the Prussian, Austrian, Bavarian, and French post-offices.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

His eye was struck by the appearance of the stamps — long, square, and triangular, in red and blue ink, which distinguished a letter that had come through the Prussian, Austrian, Bavarian, and French post-offices.

Le Colonel Chabert 2007

The window-board was curiously stamped with black circles, burnt thereon by the heated bottoms of drinking-cups, which had rested there after previously standing on the hot ashes of the hearth for the purpose of warming their contents, the result giving to the ledge the look of an envelope which has passed through innumerable post-offices.

Under the Greenwood Tree 2006

From sub-stations constantly engaged in checking back thumb-marks and numbers, an incessant stream of information would come, of births, of deaths, of arrivals at inns, of applications to post-offices for letters, of tickets taken for long journeys, of criminal convictions, marriages, applications for public doles and the like.

A Modern Utopia Herbert George 2006

Women do not attend funerals, nor sales, nor shops, nor post-offices in Brazil.

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

I am afraid this horrid wretch will trace out by the post-offices where you are, if not careful.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006