mailbox
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If checks need to be mailed, doing it from the post office rather than a mailbox or a blue U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
When the reporter placed a letter for Paxton in the mailbox, an envelope addressed to Warren Paxton, the attorney general’s given name, was visible.
From Salon ● Jul. 7, 2026
A letter still in the mail carrier’s hand has not arrived in the mailbox.
From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026
If you were a tween girl in the 1990s or early 2000s, the arrival of a new one in the mailbox felt like an event.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
All because, as Theo would have me believe, he was stealing away to drop letters in a mailbox located blocks away because his parents think he is thousands of miles away.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Police also asked postal workers to report overflowing mailboxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Mark DiCamillo, director of the poll, said he was stunned by how fractured voters are and how little knowledge they have about the candidates less than 60 days before ballots start arriving in Californians’ mailboxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 18, 2026
Yellow ribbons are tied around mailboxes and roadside library posts.
From Slate ● Feb. 23, 2026
Yellow ribbons are tied to neighbors’ mailboxes and trees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 13, 2026
“Even if where they’re going is just two different mailboxes on the same street?”
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
