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Knitting woolly postbox toppers, popular in the United Kingdom, in the shape of soldiers and tanks.—Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024 Oxford anti-royalists exchanged missives in a certain postbox made inconspicuous by the fact that men often stopped to pee near it.—Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 26 Apr. 2024 If this was somewhat unclear, a postbox of the committee is assumed to be a thenar burma.—Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024 Kate met her family — Prince William, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis — outside to walk into the event together...but first, her children made an important stop at a red postbox to mail letters to kids who might be struggling this year.—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023 On the evening of February 9, just as voting began in a pivotal campaign to unionize Amazon workers in Bessemer, Alabama, the United States Postal Service bowed to pressure by Amazon management to install a special postbox on their premises to collect union votes.—Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 9 Apr. 2021 In a way, those traditions continue today; Olympic winners hailing from Great Britain can receive stamps featuring their image and the postbox of their hometown in gold.—Marisa Sloan, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2021 Although the 2020 election will surely own mail-in voting’s tipping-point moment in the history books, statistics show that voters were increasingly choosing to drop their ballots in the corner postbox long before this year.—Lila MacLellan, Quartz, 6 Nov. 2020 Privacy rules designed for the landline phone, postbox and filing cabinet urgently need to be strengthened for the age of the smartphone, e-mail and cloud computing.—The Economist, 31 May 2018
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