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Post Offices
A post office is the facility where mail is handled, sorted and delivered. At a post office you can send a package, buy stamps, apply for a passport, buy a money order and much more.
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"Lost" means something whose location is unknown.
Lost mail can have been lost in many places - stuck to the side of the mailbox it was posted into, dropped from the sack when collected, lost in the van driving it to be sorted, lost in the sorting office, dropped from the sack as it was taken out of the sorting office, lost in the van as it was driven to your neighbourhood, stuck to the side of your mailbox, stolen from your mailbox, accidentally put in the bin with the junk mail that morning...
The Post Office is intentionally vague about these things for that reason. They can look in specific places - dead letter offices for undeliverable mail, for instance - but they can't look everywhere. They can't even trust the person who says they sent it to have actually sent it, nor the person who says they didn't get it to actually not have got it.
The vast majority - millions upon millions upon millions - of letters every year get to the right place in a remarkably short period of time. You've been unlucky, but you should really be pleased about how lucky you usually manage to be, against some amazing odds.
When did the Post Office change the state abbreviations letters?
In 1963, the Post Office Department implemented the five-digit ZIP Code, which was placed after the state in the last line of an address. To provide room for the ZIP Code, the Department issued two-letter abbreviations for all states and territories. Publication 59, Abbreviations for Use with ZIP Code, issued by the Department in October 1963, told why. Two letter abbreviations were provided by the Post Office Department as an aid to mailers in accommodating ZIP Codes with the usual City-State line of addresses. The abbreviations are based on a maximum 23-position line, because this has been found to be the most universally acceptable line capacity basis for major addressing systems. A breakdown of the City-State-ZIP Code line positions is as follows: 13 positions for city, 1 space between city and State designations, 2 positions for State designation, 2 spaces between State designation and ZIP Code, and 5 positions for ZIP Code. Only one change has been made to the abbreviations issued in 1963. the two-letter abbreviation for Nebraska, originally NB, was changed to NE to avoid confusion with New Brunswick in Canada.
Address of post office in Hurlstone Park?
The address is:25 Crinan St
Hurlstone Park, NSW 2193, Australia
+61 2 9558 0064
