post office box
or post-of·fice box
a small, locked compartment, usually in a post office, into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
Origin of post office box
1- Also P.O. box or PO box [pee-oh-boks] /ˈpiˈoʊ ˌbɒks/ .
Words Nearby post office box
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How to use post office box in a sentence
If any one of you knows some other experiment, I should be ever so glad to see it in the Post-office Box.
Harper's Young People, November 30, 1880 | VariousI am the lame boy whose letters you printed in the Post-office Box last winter.
A reply to your other question was given in Post-office Box No. 88.
Harper's Young People, July 12, 1881 | VariousI like the Post-office Box better than any other part of the paper.
Harper's Young People, July 19, 1881 | VariousI love to hear from the little letter-writers in our Post-office Box.
Harper's Young People, July 19, 1881 | Various
British Dictionary definitions for post office box
a private numbered place in a post office, in which letters received are kept until called for
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