post office box

or post-of·fice box

[ pohst-aw-fis boks, of-is ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a small, locked compartment, usually in a post office, into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. : POB, P.O.B.

post office box

a private numbered place in a post office, in which letters received are kept until called for

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

If any one of you knows some other experiment, I should be ever so glad to see it in the Post-office Box.

I am the lame boy whose letters you printed in the Post-office Box last winter.

A reply to your other question was given in Post-office Box No. 88.

I like the Post-office Box better than any other part of the paper.

I love to hear from the little letter-writers in our Post-office Box.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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