I'm going to stop in the postoffice when we get to Leeds; then we'll go down to Catskill Landing together, hey?
For a few minutes he stood gazing out of the postoffice window, watching two men who were taking down the registration-day decorations from the hotel opposite.
He was standing in front of the recruiting station down at the postoffice yesterday," said Roy, "staring at the posters.
When I go through Leeds on the way home, I'll stop in the postoffice and you can send me a note to say you registered and everything's all right.
Weyanoke, like most of the large plantations on the James, has a postoffice in the house.
The postoffice at Brandon is over in the south wing where there are pigeon-holes and desks and such things.
Then he discovered the grinning face of Stacy Brown peering at him from behind the postoffice wicket.
This was a postofficeas well as general trading post.
Miss Kimball, or to the Superintendent of Instruction, let him remember that nopostoffice address is complete without the name of the State.
Every envelope passing through the machine is stamped; as a result, none are returned from the postoffice for lack of postage.
Changing street numbers, room numbers, or postoffice box numbers, is another common method of keying.
The department of public works has the next building; then the postoffice department, the telegraph department, the state archives building and patent office in order.
That is about the only feature of civil administration in which the federal government of the United States is inferior, but, compared with India, as well as the European countries, our Postoffice Department is not up to date.
Letters are charged in thepostoffice according to their weight.
Writing a letter in the Postoffice one day I ventured to take up this matter with the postmaster.
I inquired at the Postoffice when I first entered the village.
There was one cabin but farther up the river in what was later called the "upper town" was a store and postoffice conducted by Alex Sumpter.
He was instrumental in securing the establishment of a postoffice at Ringgold, and for a year and a half served as postmaster.
We located about four miles from Anatone, which at that time consisted of a small store and postoffice conducted by Chas.
We had expected to have a veritable field day here with our camera, but when we came from the postoffice clouds rolled down from the mountains like great avalanches of snowy feathers, the village grew misty and rain began to fall.
Instead we left town so precipitately that we forgot to stop at the postoffice and ask if our mail had been forwarded.
We threw "Sometub's" line to a picket fence beside the canal and hastened across to the town to call at the postoffice to receive an accumulation of 10 days' mail that had been forwarded from point to point all the way from Hancock.
A generation ago farmers went several miles to the nearest postoffice for their mail, and usually got it but two or three times a week.
They went back past the postofficeand the Herald and down toward the lake, whose waters reflected the rays of the setting sun in varied hues.
Margaret Stevens bustled in after school in time to help carry the last of the papers to the postoffice and she insisted on sweeping out the editorial office.
Their last postoffice statement showed only 108 more than ours," replied Tom.
She went around to the postoffice and returned with a handful of letters.
The postoffice occupied the front half of the building and the Herald office was the rear.
By four o'clock every paper was in the postoffice and half an hour later they were ready to call it a day and lock up the office.
Helen walked down the alleyway between the postoffice and the Temple furniture store.
Helen stopped at the postoffice for the mail and Tom went on to unlock the office, put the pages on the press and start printing the last run.
On the right of the street and just two blocks from the lake shore stood the one-story frame structure housing the postoffice and her father's printing plant.
The postoffice receipts record for our town was broken during the months of June, July, and August.
On his way home to supper he stopped at the postoffice with a handful of letters that old man Kunz had given him to mail.
In one corner of the dim little postoffice lobby a man was busily tacking up posters.
A tramp, hanging around the postoffice window, had overheard her and, having more limberness than any other commodity, had endeavored to help himself.
Molly, ever mindful of others, hitched up President one off day and drove over to the postoffice and got the poor thing.
I was paid at de postoffice and took de money home and gave it to mammy.
He usta libe in dat big house dat wuz war de postoffice is now, an' he usta keep de slaves he buy dar at he's house till he can send um down de ribber on de boat.
Just here Uncle Sam, urged on by reports made to the Chicago Postoffice Inspectors by Wooldridge, took a hand.
The matrimonial agencies that have been investigated and suppressed by Detective Wooldridge and the postofficeauthorities have disclosed an almost incredible phase of woman's nature.
It should be in the reach of all, male and female, for there is not a postoffice in all the land where the mail, every time it comes, does not bring the alluring literature of the Grafter to swindle or tempt the unwary.
Bureau officials, as in the cotton scandal, the postoffice frauds, and other of the departments, and civil service exposes have been arraigned by their own democracy for traitor intrigues with King Graft, and have been beheaded.
The postoffice force was burdened with the task of mailing back to some 500 lovelorn men and maidens the letters which had accumulated in "Marie's" postoffice box.
In the postoffice department at Washington, in the files of the assistant attorney general, one may study the methods of the black sheep of the advertising fold against whom fraud orders have been issued.
He was arrested about two years ago in New York City, decidedly broken in health, and was sent to Illinois to serve a term for robbing the government postoffice at Springfield.
Fill out the enclosed blank and send it to us with one dollar or express or postoffice money order (stamps accepted), and we will immediately send everything, all expenses prepaid.
Also, the records of all men suspected of being yeggmen, train or postoffice robbers are to be taken.
While the postoffice department carries mail for compensation, it is a department of the government and not a common carrier.
Under this provision, thepostoffice department has been created.
I have ordered an entirely new set of boxes and postoffice outfit, including new corrugated cuspidors for the lady clerks.
Now that we are co-workers in the same department, I trust that you will not feel shy or backward in consulting me at any time relative to matters concerning postoffice affairs.
We had never met before, though for years we had been plodding along life's rugged way--he in the war department, I in the postoffice department.
I once more become a private citizen, clothed only with the right to read such postal cards as may be addressed to me personally, and to curse the inefficiency of the postoffice department.
With a rattle of chains and a creaking of straps the stage and its six high-headed horses pulled up at the postoffice door.
Late in the afternoon a notice posted on the postoffice door caused it to rise again.
Without answering, Lincoln went to his trunk and brought out a package containing the exact amount, put away all that time, awaiting the business call of the postoffice agent.
The postoffice inspector produced a claim for seventeen dollars.
As postmaster, Lincoln had to make an accounting to the government for its share of money received, and this was to be receipted for by the postoffice agent.
Also, the walk will do us good, and we shall pass the postoffice on our way.
After this supper which was more hearty than most dinners at home, they walked to the postoffice and found a heap of mail that had been forwarded along their route.
Then let him attend to his postoffice instead of interfering with your good cooking.
Jim Hill said yesterday he guessed the postoffice had moved to your hotel, and the boys all ask me when the wedding is to be.
This I gave to a cabman, instructing him to drive to the postoffice and bring my mail to the house I had marked, returning myself to the commercial room to watch.
I then hired a covered cab, driving past the postofficeto recoinnoitre, and saw one of the detectives standing in the doorway.
The Cherokee name of Yellow-hill settlement, now officially known as Cherokee, the postoffice and agency headquarters for the East Cherokee, on Oconaluftee river in Swain county, North Carolina.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "postoffice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
