Editing Post office (section)

==Notable post offices==
===Operational===
*[[General Post Office]], state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969
* [[General Post Office, Dublin|General Post Office]] in [[Dublin]] (inaugurated 1818), headquarters of the [[An Post|Irish post]] and headquarters of the 1916 [[Easter Uprising]]
* [[General Post Office, Kolkata|General Post Office]] (1864), erected on the site of the [[Black Hole of Calcutta]]
* [[General Post Office, Chennai|General Post Office]] (1874) in [[Chennai]], India
* [[General Post Office, Lahore|General Post Office]] (1887) in [[Lahore]], [[Pakistan]]
* [[General Post Office, Colombo|General Post Office]] (1895), the headquarters of the [[Sri Lankan Post]]
* [[General Post Office, Zagreb|General Post Office]] (1903), headquarters of the [[Croatia]]n post
* [[General Post Office, Hong Kong|General Post Office]] (1976), the headquarters of [[Hongkong Post]]
* [[General Post Office (Mumbai)|General Post Office]] (1913), the main post office of [[Mumbai]], India, and one of the world's largest (120,000 sq&nbsp;ft or 11,000 m<sup>2</sup>)
* [[General Post Office Building, Shanghai|General Post Office Building]] (1922), former headquarters of the [[Chunghwa Post]] and present home of the Shanghai Postal Museum
* [[Central Post Office (Ottawa)|Central Post Office]] (1939), also temporary home to the [[Privy Council of Canada]]
* [[Manila Central Post Office]] (1926, rebuilt after [[World War II in the Philippines|WWII]])
* [[James Farley Post Office]] (1912), America's largest operating post office, the main office for New York City. Bears the famous translation of [[United States Postal Service creed|Herodotus]]'s description of the Persian postal system along its front facade: ''[[United States Postal Service creed|"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds"]]''
* The [[Edificio Correos|Edificio Central de Correos y Telégrafos building]] (1917), San José, Costa Rica. Contains the Costa Rican Philatelic Museum on the second floor
* [[Polish Post Office (Danzig)|Polish Post Office]], a scene of [[Defense of the Polish Post Office in Danzig|intense fighting]] during the 1939 [[Nazi Germany]] invasion of [[Free City of Danzig|Danzig]]
* [[Taipei Post Office]] (1928), the headquarters of [[Taiwan Post]]
* [[First Toronto Post Office]] (1833)
* [[Istanbul Main Post Office]] (1905), home of the [[Istanbul Postal Museum]]

===Former===
* [[Bandinelli Palace]] (1589), a former post office in [[Lviv]] in [[Ukraine]]
*[[General Post Office (Washington, D.C.)|General Post Office]] (1842), [[Washington, D.C.]]'s first all-marble building, patterned after Rome's [[Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus|Temple of Jupiter]] and now the [[Hotel Monaco (Washington, D.C.)|Hotel Monaco]], a four-star hotel
* [[Chief Post Office, Christchurch|Chief Post Office]] (1877), the former chief post office of [[New Zealand]] in [[Christchurch]]
* [[Central Post Office Building (Stockholm)|Central Post Office Building]] (1903), home of the [[Government of Sweden]]
* [[Buenos Aires Central Post Office]] (1908), now the Bicentennial Cultural Center
* [[The Fullerton Hotel Singapore|The Fullerton]] (1919), a 5-star hotel in Singapore
* [[Magna Plaza]], a shopping center at Amsterdam
* [[Old Chicago Main Post Office|Old Main Post Office]] (1921), an enormous abandoned structure in Chicago
* ''[[Palazzo delle Poste, Naples|Palazzo Delle Poste]]'' (1928), the former post office of [[Naples]], [[Italy]], heavily damaged during [[Four days of Naples|Naples' 1943 uprising against the Nazis]]
* [[Utrecht Post Office]], since 2020 a large public library at [[Utrecht]], [[Netherlands]]

===Historic===
* The [[General Post Office East]] (1825), former headquarters of the [[General Post Office|GPO]] in London, demolished in 1912
* John, Richard R. ''Private Enterprise, Public Good?'' University Of Carolina, 1839-1851.