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Knitting woolly postbox toppers, popular in the United Kingdom, in the shape of soldiers and tanks.
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Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
If this was somewhat unclear, a postbox of the committee is assumed to be a thenar burma.
—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
Kate met her family — Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — outside to walk into the event together...but first, her children made an important stop at a red postbox to mail letters to kids who might be struggling this year.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
On the evening of February 9, just as voting began in a pivotal campaign to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the United States Postal Service bowed to pressure by Amazon management to install a special postbox on their premises to collect union votes.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2021
In a way, those traditions continue today; Olympic winners hailing from Great Britain can receive stamps featuring their image and the postbox of their hometown in gold.
—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
Although the 2020 election will surely own mail-in voting’s tipping-point moment in the history books, statistics show that voters were increasingly choosing to drop their ballots in the corner postbox long before this year.
—Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2020
Privacy rules designed for the landline phone, postbox and filing cabinet urgently need to be strengthened for the age of the smartphone, e-mail and cloud computing.
—The Economist, 31 May 2018
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Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024
If this was somewhat unclear, a postbox of the committee is assumed to be a thenar burma.
—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
Kate met her family — Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — outside to walk into the event together...but first, her children made an important stop at a red postbox to mail letters to kids who might be struggling this year.
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
On the evening of February 9, just as voting began in a pivotal campaign to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the United States Postal Service bowed to pressure by Amazon management to install a special postbox on their premises to collect union votes.
—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2021
In a way, those traditions continue today; Olympic winners hailing from Great Britain can receive stamps featuring their image and the postbox of their hometown in gold.
—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021
Although the 2020 election will surely own mail-in voting’s tipping-point moment in the history books, statistics show that voters were increasingly choosing to drop their ballots in the corner postbox long before this year.
—Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2020
Privacy rules designed for the landline phone, postbox and filing cabinet urgently need to be strengthened for the age of the smartphone, e-mail and cloud computing.
—The Economist, 31 May 2018
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“Postbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postbox. Accessed 26 Dec. 2024.
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