English term
Devoting myself to translation
Native in: Chinese 
Works in: Chinese to English, English to Chinese, Japanese to Chinese, and 2 more.
you get something to post-office
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Responses
Italy
translating meaning, not just words
Native in: English 
Works in: English to Italian, Italian to English, English
you take something to the post office
getting something somewhere just means making sure it reaches a place. In this case, something to post.
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Arabic & More
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Thank you.
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Charles Davis
: That is what they must mean, and frankly I think the only change necessary is to add the article: "get something to *the* post office by the end of the day" seems perfectly OK to me.
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Thanks!
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Terry Richards
: Yes, just add "the".
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Thanks :)
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Sheila Wilson
: a nit-picking neutral rather than agree because "take" excludes the possibility of delegating the task to someone else
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:)) you're right too of course, I was just trying to find a quick and simple way of coveying the general idea!
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Tina Vonhof (X)
: But it's a little more than simply taking it - getting it there on time means you probably have to rush.
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United Kingdom
Translator since 1953
Native in: English
Works in: Russian to English, German to English, English
you get something ready to send to the customer
bad English
It is clear what it means. Also clear the writer could use native English language instruction.
Discussion
They're giving an example here: the employee might be required to get to the post office to send an important parcel or letter before it shuts at the end of the day, and that might be essential, but it's not exactly difficult [so the employee might think twice before ranking it as being 'hard'].
Steps:
1. Choose a time-frame for your list. Do you have a particularly busy week coming up? A crazy day? Maybe thinking about everything you need to do before the end of the year is driving you nuts. Whatever the nature of your commitments, select the time-frame of the priorities list you hope to create to help you start managing those priorities and translating that stress into meaningful action.
2. Rank the effort required for each task. It might be critical that you get something to post-office by the end of the day, but this isn’t a terrifically difficult task. Rank everything on your list in terms of its difficult so you’ll know how to situate it in relation to other tasks.