Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
A post office building in Edithburgh, Australia The West Toledo Branch Post Office in Toledo, Ohio, in 1912. A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ...
The United States Post Office Department (USPOD; also known as the Post Office or U.S. Mail) was the predecessor of the United States Postal Service, established in 1792. From 1872 to 1971, it was officially in the form of a Cabinet department.
The Old Post Office Building's 315-foot (96 m) clock tower is the third-highest building in Washington, after the Washington Monument and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. [205] The tower's 270-foot-high (82 m) observation deck offers panoramic views of the city and its surroundings.
A few weeks before the post office opened, the Star-Telegram gave readers an inside look at what was then one of the city’s biggest public works projects, filling multiple pages of valuable ...
The U.S. Post Office and Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. [1] It has since been conveyed to the City of Baltimore, and is in use by the Baltimore city courts. For many years, the courthouse was known colloquially as Courthouse East.
The full eagle logo, used in various versions from 1970 to 1993. The United States Postal Service (USPS), also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or simply the Postal Service, is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, its insular areas and associated states.
The front reception hall of the post office. Inside the Eighth Avenue entrance is a two-story-tall gallery that parallels the colonnaded front. The floors of the gallery were originally paved in various colors of marble, while the walls were made of buff marble and white plaster, with various windows along both sides. [17]
Office mailroom and kitchenette, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, March 2007, Thousand Oaks, CA. A mailroom (US) or post room (UK) is a room in which internal, incoming, and outgoing mail is processed and sorted. Mailrooms are commonly found in schools, offices, apartment buildings, and the generic post office.