in care of

Idioms  

1. Through someone, by way of someone, as in I sent the gift in care of your parents. This phrase indicates that something is to be delivered to someone at someone else's address. [Mid-1800s] Also see in charge, def. 3.

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in care of

If they want to ship a gun across state lines, they are required to ship it in care of another person and then open the package themselves.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026

Make the donation in care of Beniers, McCann, Andre Burakovsky and Dunn and they’ll take it from there.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2024

All the while she writes letters to her sister in “Europe,” in care of her parents’ address.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2019

A few months earlier, I’d been given two hundred and thirty letters sent to me in care of my publishing house.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 25, 2019

When I was in my last year of high school, a letter for me from a federal prison arrived in care of the school.

From "Three Little Words: A Memoir" by Ashley Rhodes-Courter