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Post-Office box   /poʊst-ˈɔfəs bɑks/   Listen
Post-Office box

noun
1.
A numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for.  Synonyms: call box, letter box, PO Box, POB.



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"Post-office box" Quotes from Famous Books



... really convinced by the nonsense which is talked in ordinary society around her,—as, that it is right to admit girls to common schools, and equally right to exclude them from colleges; that it is proper for a woman to sing in public, but indelicate for her to speak in public; that a post-office box is an unexceptionable place to drop a bit of paper into, but a ballot-box terribly dangerous? No cause in the world can keep above water, sustained by such contradictions as these, too feeble and slight to be dignified by the name of ...
— Women and the Alphabet • Thomas Wentworth Higginson



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