post-office box

post-office box

 
noun
(in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
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1825–35, Americanism
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post-office box

noun
a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for 
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