letter box


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a numbered compartment in a post office where mail is put to be called for

public box for deposit of mail

a private box for delivery of mail

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Residents in Rumney, Cardiff, have claimed that leaflets advertising Allen & Harris estate agents on Albany Road were left hanging out of letter boxes last weekend, with some saying the leaflets "advertised" when homes were empty.
It would be great if dog owners put boxes behind their letter boxes or on the outside of their homes.
So if it takes a red letter day to fill the red letter box, so be it.
Or to rekindle my desire for a Stalinist government to regulate the design of letter boxes. It's a bit like showers in hotels, where you spend an age trying to work out the controls while freezing or getting second degree burns.
Some people's letter boxes are difficult to open or are partially stuck down, making it awkward to put the paper completely through, despite our best efforts.
Some of the cottage dates from the 15th Century but the wall where a builder cut the letter box is a recent addition made of breeze blocks.
Two days later the horrified family found the tail of the other missing kitten had been posted through their letter box, police said
A passerby lingering around a letter box will often draw the attention of its maker, who will usually come to the gate and gladly tell about his creation.
THIS is the moment a jogger appears to brazenly steal a parcel from a letter box.
At the end of the day though, this is about choice and comments like "letter box" and "bank robber" by a senior politician are surely a red rag to a bull.
A DRUNK man was arrested after shouting though his mother's letter box when she refused to give him any money.
The cards did not fall to the bottom of the post box so I peered in through the letter box and I could see they were resting on top of a large envelope which had got stuck.
Undaunted, men began to fall to their knees and, by bleating pathetically through the letter box, beg the poor girls to serve them for the sakes of their relationships, marriages or physical safety.
even if home is a letter box, traffic lights or ashtrays in a crematorium.