In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the p...oor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Just across the Green from the post office is the county jail, seldom occupied except by some backwoodsman who has been intemperat...e; the courthouse is under the same roof. The dog warden usually basks in the sunlight near the harness store or the post office, his golden badge polished bright.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are n...ever worth going through the rain for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment ...in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The largest business in American handled by a woman is the Money Order Department of the Pittsburgh Post-office; Mary Steel has it... in charge.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, "Boy, where's the pos...t office?" "I don't know." "Well, then, where might the drugstore be?" "I don't know." "How about a good cheap hotel?" "I don't know." "Say, boy, you don't know much, do you?" "No, sir, I sure don't. But I ain't lost."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Lined with lindens of medium size with hanging droplets of rain distributed among their intricate black twigs according to the fut...ure arrangement of leaves (tomorrow each drop would contain a green pupil); complete with a smooth tarred surface some thirty feet across and variegated sidewalks (hand-built, and flattering to the feet), it rose at a barely perceptible angle, beginning with a post office and ending with a church, like an epistolary novel.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The post-office appeared a singularly domestic institution here. Ever and anon the stage stopped before some low shop or dwelling,... and a wheelwright or shoemaker appeared in his shirt- sleeves and leather apron, with spectacles newly donned, holding up Uncle Sam's bag, as if it were a slice of home-made cake, for the travelers, while he retailed some piece of gossip to the driver, really as indifferent to the presence of the former as if they were so much baggage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »