postbox

noun

post·​box ˈpōs(t)-ˌbäks How to pronounce postbox (audio)
: mailbox
especially : a public mailbox

Examples of postbox in a Sentence

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Knitting woolly postbox toppers, popular in the United Kingdom, in the shape of soldiers and tanks. 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

Word History

First Known Use

1754, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of postbox was in 1754

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“Postbox.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/postbox. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.

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