postbox
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It also features a barcode scanner, which opens a drop-down drawer that is big enough to accommodate parcels that do not fit in the traditional postbox slot.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2025
A knitted postbox topper featuring the infamous phrase "rats the size of cats" has appeared on a street corner in Birmingham amid the city's ongoing bin strikes.
From BBC ● May 7, 2025
Previous works by Impro include a phone, postbox and door affixed to the side of Sonning Bridge.
From BBC ● Feb. 13, 2025
A postbox has been closed because snails have been crawling inside and munching the mail.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2024
Today, I wish I could tell my pen pals that I was going to Birzeit to open my postbox, to meet their words.
From "Tasting the Sky" by Ibtisam Barakat
However, Peacock added that generally "people who use postboxes are writing letters and using stamps".
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
Seven "postboxes of the future" are in place in Northern Ireland, of 3,500 planned across the UK.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2026
Emma Gilthorpe, Royal Mail chief executive, called it an "historic change" to give postboxes "a new lease of life".
From BBC ● Apr. 13, 2025
Customers use the new postboxes by scanning a bar code on the parcel and dropping it into a drawer - all powered by small solar panels on the top of the box.
From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2025
Across the country that day, the ballots for year-end honors in Thoroughbred racing began arriving in journalists’ postboxes.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
