GENERAL POST OFFICE

The term '''General Post Office''' is or has been used by a number of postal and telecommunications governmental administrations worldwide, including:

★ United Kingdom until 1969, see General Post Office (United Kingdom). After 1981 see Royal Mail and Post Office Ltd. for a continuing history of the British Post Office.

★ Ireland: General Post Office is the name of the main post office in the Republic of Ireland, which was the headquarters of the 1916 Rising, see General Post Office (Dublin)

★ Australia: General Post Office is the name of the building in each state or territory capital city which contains or once contained the main post office for that state or territory; e.g. Sydney GPO, Melbourne GPO, Brisbane GPO etc.

★ India, It is the term for the headquarters of a postal circle. General Post Office, Mumbai is the HQ for Maharashtra postal circle, PIN code 400001. The HQ of Tamil Nadu postal circle will be GPO, Chennai, PIN Code 600001.

★ China:

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★ There was a General Post Office in Shanghai. The building is the headquarters of the postal services in Shanghai, but is no longer known as the "General Post Office".

★ Hong Kong: General Post Office is located in Central. It has the headquarters of Hongkong Post.

★ United States: the general post office is called the General Mail Facility and it serves as the primary collection, sorting and distribution point for a given area.

★ The term also refers to the Kuala Lumpur General Post Office, the central post office of Pos Malaysia.

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