sub-post office

noun

1. (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office

Example Sentences

They were blamed for discrepancies in their sub-post office's finances and prosecuted, with many receiving prison sentences, criminal records or going bankrupt.

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Louise Dar told the inquiry she was forced to pay £44,000 which was wrongly deemed to have gone missing from her sub-post office in Lenzie, East Dunbartonshire.

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In 2007, Mary Philp was suspended by the Post Office over allegations of missing funds at her sub-post office branch in Auchtermuchty, Fife.

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But no matter how many times she processed the money at her sub-Post Office in a small Kent village, the sums just did not add up.

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On the night of Friday 15 November 1957, 24-year-old Vivian Teed broke into the sub-post office in Fforestfach, Swansea.

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