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Meanings of letter box in English

Catalan
apartat
Spanish
apartado

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

apartat
Portuguese
caixa de correio
Catalan
bústia
Spanish
casilla

Public box for deposit of mail.

caixa de correio
Synonyms
Examples for "Post-Office box"
Examples for "Post-Office box"
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She took the letter to the post-office box on the Fiesole square.
The Red Lily — Volume 02
2
They found out that Tynnes Falk had kept a post-office box in Malmö.
Firewall
3
I found the enclosed piece of mail in my post-office box.
Think of a number
4
These agencies are often little more than post-office box firms.
The Irish Times
5
There must be a reason my post-office box was chosen.'
Think of a number
1
Just a bank account and a PO Box for correspondence.
The Fuller Memorandum
2
The address for the money to be sent is a PO Box in Taipei, Taiwan.
The Irish Times
3
Lock it in a Grand Central locker and mail the key to PO Box 412.
One night stands & lost weekends
4
Asked to give an address he replied " PO Box 4080".
The Guardian
5
The Hidden Ireland brochures are available from PO Box 5451, Dublin 2.
The Irish Times
1
Among the design principles, POB wanted conversion at the highest possible resolution.
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
2
But especially at issue for POB is the facility for browsing.
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
3
The terms were that POB would pay the loser.
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
4
The purpose and scope of POB focus on imaging.
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
5
While input will come from a variety of sources, POB is considering especially input from preservation microfilm.
Workshop on Electronic Texts: Proceedings, 9-10 June 1992
1
I should have been the one to go to the call box.
Bloodchild and Other Stories
2
I was phoning her from a call box in the middle of Huddersfield.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
3
There was a call box, but it wasn't in a booth.
Talk of the town
4
I'm talking to you from a filthy call box on a side street.
A beautiful place to die
5
This one also had a call box next to it.
Act of treason
Usage of letter box in English
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Then I went to the letter box and got the paper.
Firewall
2
Then one morning there came an enigmatic note slipped into our letter box.
Sherlock holmes: the complete illustrated novels
3
Or the invitation might have got stuck in the letter box and delayed.
Carl and the Cotton Gin
4
A key taped under the letter box was waiting for me.
The South African
5
The brass letter box brought back a strange stab of memory.
Career of Evil
6
I pushed one of my business cards through his letter box.
Silks
7
Fancy getting a letter box that's a replica of your house?
Radio NZ
8
The letter box in the event a deed was in there as well.
The red door
9
I opened my front door and removed Daniel's note from the letter box.
The last illusion
10
She dropped her letter into the drawbridge of the letter box.
The hunchback assignments
11
Then I noticed that something was stuck in my letter box.
The last illusion
12
Then, one by one, he dropped them through the letter box.
Evan and elle
13
On no account should it be dropped into a letter box.
Canadian Postal Guide
14
The annual reports are flying through the letter box thick and fast these days.
The Irish Times
15
Could you put it in the letter box at Konsum on your way home?
The girl with the dragon tattoo
16
The BBC's technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones has just received one through his letter box.
BBC
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