What are Post Office Boxes?

A post office box is a personal inbox placed inside a post office.

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Post office box rental can be divided into personal and commercial use. The lease method is usually monthly or annual, and the fee is determined by the capacity and location of the post office box. lie in

Recipients can choose post boxes of different sizes according to their needs. When a PO box receives a large package that cannot be placed in the box, the post office staff will put a notice in the box to notify the PO box holder to pick up the service counter. Sometimes the post office staff will put the parcel in a larger locker and leave a key in the recipient's post box to open the locker.

Users who frequently receive large amounts of mail can use the locked pouch , which has the same functions as a post office box. Locked pouches in the United States are called "Caller Service" and they are numbered the same way as post office boxes.

There are three sizes of post boxes provided at the Australian Post Office. Post boxes of different sizes are installed together under the same wall. The arrangement may seem messy, but it is actually carefully arranged. in

Different post offices have different numbers of post offices. Some rural post offices have fewer than one hundred post offices. However, metropolitan post offices may have more than 100,000 post offices. ^[1]

Post office boxes are usually installed on the exterior or interior walls of post offices. Post office staff will put in mail from them, and post office box holders can collect them from the outside. In the US Post Office, the lobby where the PO box is located is usually separate from the lobby with the service counter, so that people can still pick up the luggage in the PO box which is still open during non-office hours. However, starting in the 1980s, post offices in urban areas no longer open PO Box lobby overnight, as these halls became homes for street sleepers at night. ^[1]

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• Personal pouch-delivered to the recipient by the contractor.