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- noun Abbreviation of
post office .
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Examples
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The P.O. was a capital little institution, and flourished wonderfully, for nearly as many queer things passed through it as through the real post office.
Little Women 1921
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The P.O. was a capital little institution, and flourished wonderfully, for nearly as many queer things passed through it as through the real post office.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860
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A plumber may very well harbor thoughts similar to the philosophy grad student-plumber but without the vocabulary (setting aside arguments about language determining thought); as an armchair philosopher of the post office (itself a kind of plumbing system) I would suggest that one attribute of plumbing and the P.O. is their egalitarian or democratic natures: they'll deliver whatever is injected into the system irrespective of the attributes of the person delivering the ... um... message.
Philosophy of X? Daniel Little 2008
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Wait 'til Creepy and the Fireman turn the main P.O. over to Gerding and the boys for a Soviet apartment bunker.
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The P.O. is going to pull out of down town eventually.
Post Office deserting downtown Portland? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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I think it's a fun idea -- kinda wacky on the part of the P.O. Posted by:
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Readers, if you would like to receive a copy, send $5 and a self-addressed, stamped 61 cents, long envelope to: Heloise/Cleaning Solutions, P.O.
Hints From Heloise for Feb. 17: How to track a remote, cleaning ideas Post 2011
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Bear in mind this was the thinking before the P.O. began bleeding cash.
Post Office deserting downtown Portland? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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They moved the P.O. back in there after they turned the Pioneer Courthouse into a Ninth Circuit luxury resort, kicking the postal branch out.
Post Office deserting downtown Portland? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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A couple of blocks south is a real P.O. branch in the old Lincoln-Mercury dealership.
Post Office deserting downtown Portland? (Jack Bog's Blog) 2009
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