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the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal federal art program operated by the United States Department of the Treasury, commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S. post offices?

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The main post office in Oxford, UK

Automatic sorters inside a major postal facility.

A post office is a facility authorised by a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.^[1] Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies. In addition, some post offices offer non-postal services such as passport applications and other government forms, car tax purchase, money orders, and banking services.

The back rooms of a post office are where mail is processed for delivery. Mail may also be processed in other post offices that are not open to the general public.

The Post Office Ltd. is a retail company in the United Kingdom; formerly part of the postal service Royal Mail, it became a separate entity in 1981.

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For an extensive collection of images of post office buildings, see links below.

Small-town post office in Aurora, New York	The Old Wan Chai Post Office, Hong Kong	General Post Office, Dublin	Post office in Kanazawa, Japan
Clerks at work at the post office in London, circa 1808..	The central post office in Otley, West Yorkshire, UK