general delivery

1. 1.

   the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it

   Synonymsposte restante

   Broaderunit

   Part ofpost office

Questions about general delivery

What does general delivery mean?

general delivery means "the part of a post office that handles mail for persons who call for it".

What is another word for general delivery?

Close synonyms include poste restante. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is general delivery a common word?

general delivery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.