mailbox
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Instead, their mailbox was brimming with envelopes — more than 500 of them, each a vote that wouldn’t count.
From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026
The company then listed a private mailbox center.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 11, 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
It isn’t until he reaches the mailbox all the way at the end of the road, the one mailbox for two houses, that Axel hears his name.
From "A Bird Will Soar" by Alison Green Myers
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Its letters now flood local mailboxes, saying "there is a lot of misinformation and fear that has circulated about data centers and our project."
From Barron's ● Oct. 19, 2026
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
"If we want to win, we can't attack in straight lines. We'll leave leaflets everywhere—in telephone booths, mailboxes, apartment houses—for people to read and to pass on, like a chain letter!"
From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
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