- a variation of post office box.
P.O. box
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of P.O. box
First recorded in 1845–50, for an earlier sense
Example Sentences
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If you can afford to, you can rent a P.O. box at your local post office.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2025
But P.&I.D.’s legal address was a P.O. box on Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.
From New York Times • Feb. 9, 2024
The website offers potential donors the opportunity to mail physical checks to a Florida P.O. box as well, and that address is listed on the Newsmax contact page as its mailing address.
From Salon • Sep. 7, 2023
This free service sends residential and P.O. box customers grayscale images of the mail arriving that day.
From Fox News • Mar. 17, 2022
They had a registered letter sent to the P.O. box listed under Miller’s name, then they nabbed Morrison when he went to retrieve it.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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