Post Office Emoji 🏤

What 🏤 means

A vertically rectangular creamish building with a brown roof and a big yellow 'Post Horn' on the wall, a glass door below it that is accompanied by a window on either side. There's a shorter building behind this main one with a column of windows on either side as well.

The 🏤 Post Office emoji is the design of a typical European post office (given the post horn). But, thanks to Euro-centrism, this emoji is a generic representation of any post office around the world. It suggests a way of keeping in touch with people before the advent of social media.

How and when to use it

• If you're on the way to the post office to post an important mail, you can use 🏤 while texting someone about it or, if you're the type to share routine on social media, then on social media stories/posts too.
• A post office symbolizes the OG way of sending mails, much before Gmail stole the show. So, you can use 🏤 to represent this emotion. For instance, "Nothing electronic could beat the joy of stamping posts 🏤".
• If you visited a historic post office and you're sharing pictures and/or videos of the same on your social media profile or as a direct message (DM), then you can use 🏤 in those captions/text messages.
• 🏤 can be used in common themes such as 'public service', 'posting', 'post cards', 'stamp collections', etc.
• Since posting mails has become a thing of the past with electronic mail, 🏤 can also be used to signify nostalgia.

Other Names

• 🏤 Postal Service
• 🏤 General Post Office
• 🏤 GPO
• 🏤 PO
• 🏤 Mail
• 🏤 Postal System
• 🏤 European Post Office
• 🏤 European Postal System

The lowdown

Category

Travel & Places › place-building

Codepoints

U+1F3E4

Emoji version

Emoji 1.0

Shortcodes

:european_post_office:

Keywords

building, European, office, post

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.

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