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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
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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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