Post office
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This article is about post offices. For specific post offices in other countries, see General Post Office.
The main post office in Oxford, UK
Small-town post office and town hall in Lockhart, Alabama
The Old Wan Chai Post Office
A post office is a facility authorized by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sortation, 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, money orders, and banking services.
Post offices also rent post-office boxes to people and businesses who prefer not to have mail delivered to their home or office, or who live or stay at addresses to which mail delivery is not available.
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 is a retail company in the United Kingdom; formerly part of the postal service Royal Mail, it became a separate entity in 1981.
Contents[hide]
1 See also
1.1 General postal concepts
1.2 Examples of operators of post offices from around the world
1.3 Miscellaneous
2 External links
See also
General postal concepts
Freepost (also known as business reply mail)
mail
Military mail
Post Office box
postal code, ZIP Code
"going postal"
Poste restante (also known as general delivery)
Drop letter
Examples of operators of post offices from around the world
An Post (Ireland)
Post Office Ltd (UK)
United States Postal Service
Canada Post
Deutsche Post
Universal Postal Union
Australia Post
New Zealand Post
Miscellaneous
Post offices abroad
London Post Office Railway
Post Office Rifles
Pony Express
Cabinet noir
Old Post Office disambiguation page
External links
Royalmailchat
Universal Postal Union
The British Postal Museum & Archive
United States Postal Service
United Kingdom Post Office site
GRC Database Information: worldwide post office website links
Photos of post offices around the world
Universal Postal Union (in English and French)
CEPT (in English) - The European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations - the organisation dealing with the governmental side of European postal matters. PostEurop - Association of European Public Postal Operators (in English and French) Addresses of Post Offices (in English) - philately.
International Post Corporation - 21 members (national postal services), handling 65% of the World's postal traffic
PostalNews.com (in English) - Check this page regularly for information about changes in postal services throughout the World.
PostCom, Association for Postal Commerce (in English) - Check this page regularly for information about changes in postal services throughout the World.
Air Business Online (in English) - A good resource and newsletter outlining disruptions in postal services throughout the world.
Post Insight.com (in English) - Check this page regularly for information about changes in postal services throughout the World.
Royal Mail (in English) - Choose "International Incident Bulletin" for detailed information of postal disruption throughout the world.
UPAEP - Postal Union of the America, Spain and Portugal (in Spanish) - postal members belong to Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal
World Postbox Indicators
As not all people require the amount of detail provided in The Global Sourcebook, this listing (in Adobe Acrobat format), extracted from the Global Source Book, provides the local language form of the word "Postbox" for 157 countries and territories. This document costs EUR 45. If you buy this document and then decide later to upgrade to The Global Sourcebook, you will get a discount on The Global Sourcebook of EUR 30! To order by credit card through a secure server, click here. Your credit card details should clear in real time. Please then allow a little time (and take time zone differences into account) for me to e-mail book file. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the author.
World Postal Code Formats
As not all people require the amount of detail provided in The Global Sourcebook, this listing (in Adobe Acrobat format), extracted from the Global Source Book, provides the postal code formats (or whether there are, in fact, postal codes in the country concerned) and, in some cases, some additional information about which characters are allowed in which positions in the postal codes, for 233 countries and territories. This document costs EUR 45. If you buy this document and then decide later to upgrade to The Global Sourcebook, you will get a discount on The Global Sourcebook of EUR 30! To order by credit card through a secure server, click here. Your credit card details should clear in real time. Please then allow a little time (and take time zone differences into account) for me to e-mail book file. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the author.
