noun
a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for
• Syn: ↑Post-Office box, ↑POB, ↑call box, ↑letter box
• Hypernyms: ↑compartment
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post office box: used in an address showing the number of a small box at a post office where letters for you can be sent
Send your name and address to BBC Good Food, PO Box 43, Leeds.
Thesaurus: stamps and addresses on letters and parcelshyponym
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used as a kind of address, so that mail can be sent to a post office where it is kept until it is collected
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Radio Netherlands, PO Box 222, Hilversum
See also: ↑post office box
Useful english dictionary. 2012.