"postal office" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when referring to a place where people purchase postal services and mail letters and packages, such as the United States Postal Service or Royal Mail. For example, "I went to the postal office to mail a birthday present to my sister."
I had to walk to the nearest postal office at a 3.5km distance.
He checked with the postal office and found it was meant for a young man with the same name.
In Paris, an empty Art Deco postal office is on its way to becoming Bank of America's headquarters for its European brokerage arm.
They have the largest publishing house in the country with over 1.8 million books printed per year and the Islamabad campus has, not surprisingly, its own postal office sorting office to deal with the astounding volume of parcels.
Since then, the workers and their union have complained about how long the decontamination was taking and about the Postal Service's decision to decontaminate Senate offices and a big postal office in Washington first.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating a letter containing a deadly poison, ricin, which was found late last week in an airport postal office in Greenville, S.C., administration officials said Wednesday.
There are some 31,000 retail postal offices in the country, most of them leased.
As the service looks for new ways to raise revenue, various proposals in Congress would allow it to get into financial services or insurance, as do postal offices in European countries.
Still, the latest development prompted U.S. Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, to call for anthrax testing at all 46 postal offices in central New Jersey that receive mail from the Hamilton center.
Postal offices, which also offer insurance and banking services, were open on Monday but most mailboxes were shut, with millions of letters and packages stuck in sorting centers or warehouses.
The decision to close postal offices was influenced by the anthrax attacks in late 2001, which showed that inhaling only a few spores of anthrax could infect some people with the disease.
