local post office
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- noun
- /ˈloʊkəl poʊst ˈɔfɪs/
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oficina de correos local
- When I moved to this neighborhood, I quickly found my local post office just a few blocks away.
- local post office box
Examples
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I discovered the local post office, and with the first pennies I earned at work, I bought note paper and stamps.
Fiction book (1993) -
The day after I got the card from Andy, I went to my local post office to send some mail.
Blog text (14) -
Go to your local post office.
Blog text (24) -
They give the package to the local post office to complete the delivery, which the rest of us then have to pay for.
Blog text (21) -
They said you have to report the mailboxes to the local post office, which I did.
Blog text (17) -
I visit my local post office on the principle that it is good to stand in line with your neighbors, and because my wife reminded me this morning to buy stamps.
Academic text (2004) -
Look to see if your local post office has an automatic shipping center—this made it easy for me to drop packages off before I got to work.
Blog text (26) -
There are some simple things you can do to strengthen your copyright claim, such as registering with a commercial company (recommended if the content is genuinely worth it), or popping a CD of the content in a sealed envelope with a sticker over each seal. Take this to your local post office and ask them to stamp the stickers with their official date stamp.
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Every week, I visit my local post office to collect my letters and packages.
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The local post office offers services like mailing parcels and selling stamps.
Synonyms
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A building where people send and collect mail and buy stamps
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Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'local' (in this area) + 'post' (postal service) + 'office' (place of business) yields the office of the postal service serving a local area. This is a common, cross‑linguistic compound noun pattern that a B1 learner who knows the constituents would readily infer.
Etymology
Local post office is a simple name: post means the letters and parcels that travel and office is the place where they are collected and sorted, while 'local' means near you. So, local post office is the nearby place to 'send and receive mail'.