post road

noun

(formerly) a road with stations for furnishing horses for postriders, mail coaches, or travelers.
a road or route over which mail is carried.

post road

a road or route over which post is carried and along which post houses were formerly sited

First recorded in 1650–60

On a 2.1-mile stretch of the Post Road (Route 1), there are five: Sweetfrog, Pinkberry, Top This, Peachwave, and Froyo World.

The direct road, the post road from Como, enters the city by the Porta Nuova.

A short distance from the bank they crossed the post-road, and in another half-hour were in the forest.

But, from this has been inferred the power and duty of carrying the mail along the post-road, from one post-office to another.

When the road between Montreal and Quebec was completed in 1734, the post road system was at once established upon it.

So at first the railroad followed the course of the highroad and the post-road, and took the timber bridge unto itself.

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