What does 🏤 Post Office mean?
A post office building, usually marked with a post horn, the traditional symbol used by many European postal services. It is used for posting letters, sending parcels, collecting deliveries and anything related to mail. People also add it to errands and reminders like dropping off a return. Its counterpart, 🏣, carries the Japanese postal mark instead.
🏤 Post Office is an emoji from the Travel & Places category (buildings), added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. People use it in messages about building and European.
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🏤 Post Office on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Post Office looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Post Office emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🏤 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :european_post_office:.
When was the Post Office emoji added?
🏤 Post Office was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🏤 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Post Office. The underlying code (U+1F3E4) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.