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mailbox

[mayl-boks] / ˈmeɪlˌbɒks /


NOUN
mail drop
Synonyms


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These days, Brust and Wray don’t have to look at grocery shelves or the company mailbox to understand their product’s appeal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 2026

"She likes to go to go to the mailbox, and she's like, 'Ms Dolly! Ms Dolly!' and I'm like, 'Well, let's go see if Ms Dolly sent you a book!'"

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

“The public can no longer assume that a piece of mail dropped in a mailbox before collection time on a specific day will be postmarked that same day,” Alexander said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

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

I meet him every day at the mailbox, since I can see him driving up from the barn window.

From "Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer" by Kelly Jones

The mayor ruffled feathers again when the 17,000 notices were sent out and he wrote on X that second-home owners should check their mailboxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026

Police also asked postal workers to report overflowing mailboxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

The endorsement comes as ballots have begun arriving in Californians’ mailboxes at a critical moment in the race to lead the nation’s second-largest city.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2026

And then there were the signs, stuck on stakes, posted on telephone poles, taped to mailboxes all over the hill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026

There are shattered mailboxes, cars that have jumped curbs into hedges, and the kind of random debris that one generally doesn’t find in a turnkey community like this one.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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