mailbox
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"She likes to go to go to the mailbox, and she's like, 'Ms Dolly! Ms Dolly!' and I'm like, 'Well, let's go see if Ms Dolly sent you a book!'"
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
Their mother was mentally sharp but physically frail, barely able to walk to the mailbox and back, they told deputies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“The public can no longer assume that a piece of mail dropped in a mailbox before collection time on a specific day will be postmarked that same day,” Alexander said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
If checks need to be mailed, doing it from the post office rather than a mailbox or a blue U.S.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
“What exactly was in that letter you put in the Academy mailbox? I saw you swipe a form from the Glitch room. What could you possibly have had time to conjure up that fast?”
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
The mayor ruffled feathers again when the 17,000 notices were sent out and he wrote on X that second-home owners should check their mailboxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 25, 2026
Police also asked postal workers to report overflowing mailboxes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Primary election ballots will begin hitting California voters’ mailboxes in just a few weeks, and Swalwell’s campaign had been gaining steam and financial support that may now be up for grabs by other candidates.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
Tuesday — less than two months before ballots begin arriving in voters’ mailboxes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 20, 2026
Order: not only were all its door numbers of the same font, a family, but the ones on the mailboxes were the door markers in miniature — kin.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
