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Meanings of postbox in English

Portuguese
caixa de correio
Catalan
bústia

Public box for deposit of mail.

caixa de correio
Synonyms
Examples for "mailbox"
Examples for "mailbox"
1
For anonymity, use a public mailbox, and don't include a return address.
The Verge
2
He walked to the corner and dropped the card in the mailbox.
O+F
3
The free initial model will include limited mailbox sizes and file sharing.
Reuters
4
In many ways, a mailbox is really just a simple database table.
High performance mysql, 2nd edition
5
The part to the right is the code of the mailbox computer.
The Online World
1
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
Usage of postbox in English
1
The second is if the driver intends to briefly use the postbox.
News.com.au
2
The fair-haired woman watching from the postbox had seen what had happened.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
3
She knows where everything is and can find her postbox by touch.
The Guardian
4
Well, my dear Bertie, here I am again in your postbox.
The Stark Munro Letters / Being series of twelve letters written...
5
Past the postbox, then to the sweet shop and after that is school.
The Irish Times
6
Her nearest postbox is just around the corner on Albany Road.
The Irish Times
7
The sender put it in a postbox near his home.
The Irish Times
8
Meanwhile, vandals painted a Royal Mail postbox gold in Hever Road in the village overnight.
BBC
9
A carpenter has made a gold postbox to honour Winter Olympics skeleton champion Lizzy Yarnold.
BBC
10
The postbox down the road was now bright blue.
Conrad’s Fate
11
Past the postbox, then to the sweet shop and after t(...)
The Irish Times
12
But only Wiggins had a postbox -in Chorley -painted gold on his behalf.
The Guardian
13
I put it in the hospital postbox and walked stiffly away from it without looking back.
Blackwater
14
This acts as a kind of virtual postbox to and from which the bitcoins are sent.
BBC
15
There are no monthly membership or joining fees, and your postbox address is yours for life.
The South African
16
I went out and dropped the envelope in a postbox and drove back to the motel.
Talk of the town
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Translations for postbox
Catalan
bústia
Postbox through the time