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===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 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]]
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