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Letter box

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A letter box, letterbox, letter plate, letter hole, mail slot or mailbox is a receptacle for receiving incoming mail at a private residence or business. [1]

85 relations: Aluminium, Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, Barcelona, Box, British Standards, Bushel, Cage, Canada, Canada Post, Carriageway, Casey, Illinois, Catalonia, CBC News, Centralized mail delivery, Chocolate, Crate, Curb, Deformation (engineering), Deutsches Institut für Normung, Direct marketing, Door, Ecuador, Electric light, Electric strike, Envelope, European Committee for Standardization, Fantastic architecture, Fence, Flag, Food and Drug Administration, Frederick C. Sauer, Functionalism (architecture), Galápagos Islands, Glass, House numbering, Identity theft, Industrial design, Latch, Lid, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, Mail, Mail bag, Mail chute, Mail pouch, Mail sack, Mail satchel, Medication, Metal, National Association of Home Builders, National Postal Museum, ..., Nebraska, Nut (hardware), Parcel post, Paris, Patent, Pillar box, Post box, Postmaster, Private road, Property crime, RAND Corporation, Rivet, Rotational molding, Royal Mail, Rural area, Rural Free Delivery, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, Sauer Buildings Historic District, Screw, Seal (mechanical), Sheet metal, Spring (device), Suburb, Support (structure), The New York Times, The Washington Post, They Might Be Giants, Tin box, United States Postal Service, Urban area, Wagon, Wakefield Museum, Wall, Wall box, Weatherization. Expand index (35 more) »

Aluminium

Aluminium or aluminum is a chemical element with symbol Al and atomic number 13.

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Aspinwall, Pennsylvania

Aspinwall is a borough on the Allegheny River in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Pittsburgh Metro Area.

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Barcelona

Barcelona is a city in Spain.

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Box

Box (plural: boxes) describes a variety of containers and receptacles for permanent use as storage, or for temporary use, often for transporting contents.

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British Standards

British Standards (BS) are the standards produced by the BSI Group which is incorporated under a Royal Charter (and which is formally designated as the National Standards Body (NSB) for the UK).

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Bushel

A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and US customary unit of weight or mass based upon an earlier measure of dry capacity.

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Cage

A cage is an enclosure often made of mesh, bars or wires, used to confine, contain or protect something or someone.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Canada Post

Canada Post Corporation (Société Canadienne des Postes), known more simply as Canada Post (Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation which functions as the primary postal operator in Canada.

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Carriageway

A carriageway (British English) or roadway (North American English) consists of a width of road on which a vehicle is not restricted by any physical barriers or separation to move laterally.

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Casey, Illinois

Casey (pronounced CAY-zee) is a city in Clark and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya, Catalonha, Cataluña) is an autonomous community in Spain on the northeastern extremity of the Iberian Peninsula, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Centralized mail delivery

Centralized mail delivery is a unique form of mail delivery system where a letter carrier provides delivery and collection services to a number of residences from a centrally located installation – whether in a single-family subdivision or multi-family structure.

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Chocolate

Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown food preparation of Theobroma cacao seeds, roasted and ground.

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Crate

A crate is a large shipping container, often made of wood, typically used to transport or store large, heavy items.

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Curb

A curb (American English), or kerb (Australian English, British English; see spelling differences), is the edge where a raised sidewalk (pavement in British English; pavement or footpath in Australian English) or road median/central reservation meets a street or other roadway.

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Deformation (engineering)

In materials science, deformation refers to any changes in the shape or size of an object due to-.

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Deutsches Institut für Normung

Deutsches Institut für Normung e.V. (DIN; in English, the German Institute for Standardization) is the German national organization for standardization and is the German ISO member body.

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Direct marketing

Direct marketing is a form of advertising where organizations communicate directly to customers through a variety of media including cell phone text messaging, email, websites, online adverts, database marketing, fliers, catalog distribution, promotional letters, and targeted television, newspaper, and magazine advertisements, as well as outdoor advertising.

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Door

A door is a moving mechanism used to block off and allow access to, an entrance to or within an enclosed space, such as a building, room or vehicle.

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Ecuador

Ecuador (Ikwadur), officially the Republic of Ecuador (República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Ikwadur Ripuwlika), is a representative democratic republic in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean to the west.

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Electric light

An electric light is a device that produces visible light from electric current.

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Electric strike

An electric strike is an access control device used for doors.

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Envelope

An envelope is a common packaging item, usually made of thin flat material.

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European Committee for Standardization

The European Committee for Standardization (CEN, Comité Européen de Normalisation) is a public standards organization whose mission is to foster the economy of the European Union (EU) in global trading, the welfare of European citizens and the environment by providing an efficient infrastructure to interested parties for the development, maintenance and distribution of coherent sets of standards and specifications.

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Fantastic architecture

Fantastic architecture is an architectural style featuring attention-grabbing buildings.

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Fence

A fence is a structure that encloses an area, typically outdoors, and is usually constructed from posts that are connected by boards, wire, rails or netting.

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Flag

A flag is a piece of fabric (most often rectangular or quadrilateral) with a distinctive design and colors.

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Food and Drug Administration

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or USFDA) is a federal agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, one of the United States federal executive departments.

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Frederick C. Sauer

Frederick C. Sauer (1860,Landmark Architecture of Allegheny County by James D. Van Trump and Arthur P. Ziegler, Jr., page 161 (1967, Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) Heidelberg, Germany – 1942 Aspinwall, Pennsylvania) was a German-American architect, particularly in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, region of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Functionalism (architecture)

In architecture, functionalism is the principle that buildings should be designed based solely on the purpose and function of the building.

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Galápagos Islands

The Galápagos Islands (official name: Archipiélago de Colón, other Spanish name: Las Islas Galápagos), part of the Republic of Ecuador, are an archipelago of volcanic islands distributed on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, west of continental Ecuador.

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Glass

Glass is a non-crystalline amorphous solid that is often transparent and has widespread practical, technological, and decorative usage in, for example, window panes, tableware, and optoelectronics.

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House numbering

House numbering is the system of giving a unique number to each building in a street or area, with the intention of making it easier to locate a particular building.

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Identity theft

Identity theft is the deliberate use of someone else's identity, usually as a method to gain a financial advantage or obtain credit and other benefits in the other person's name, and perhaps to the other person's disadvantage or loss.

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Industrial design

Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production.

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Latch

A latch or catch (called sneck in Northern England and Scotland) is a type of mechanical fastener that joins two (or more) objects or surfaces while allowing for their regular separation.

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Lid

A lid, also known as a cover, is part of a container, and serves as the closure or seal, usually one that completely closes the object.

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Lluís Domènech i Montaner

Lluís Domènech i Montaner (21 December 1850 – 27 December 1923) was a Spanish architect who was highly influential on Modernisme català, the Catalan Art Nouveau/Jugendstil movement.

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Mail

The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels.

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Mail bag

A mail bag or mailbag is a generic term for a type of bag used for collecting, carrying, categorizing, and classifying different types of postal material, depending on its priority, destination, and method of transport.

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Mail chute

A mail chute is a largely defunct letter collection device used in early multi-storey office buildings, hotels, apartment buildings and other high rise structures.

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Mail pouch

A mail pouch or mailpouch is a container for mail, designed to transport first-class, registered mail, domestic mail and military mail.

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Mail sack

A mail sack or mailsack is a mail bag used to carry large quantities of mail.

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Mail satchel

A mail satchel is a type of mail bag that a letter carrier uses over-the-shoulder for assisting the delivery of personal mail on a designated route.

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Medication

A medication (also referred to as medicine, pharmaceutical drug, or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease.

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Metal

A metal (from Greek μέταλλον métallon, "mine, quarry, metal") is a material (an element, compound, or alloy) that is typically hard when in solid state, opaque, shiny, and has good electrical and thermal conductivity.

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National Association of Home Builders

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is one of the largest trade associations in the United States, based upon 2011 annual budgets.

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National Postal Museum

The National Postal Museum, located opposite Union Station in Washington, D.C., United States, was established through joint agreement between the United States Postal Service and the Smithsonian Institution and opened in 1993.

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Nebraska

Nebraska is a state that lies in both the Great Plains and the Midwestern United States.

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Nut (hardware)

A nut is a type of fastener with a threaded hole.

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Parcel post

Parcel post is a postal service for mail that is too heavy for normal letter post.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Patent

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a sovereign state or intergovernmental organization to an inventor or assignee for a limited period of time in exchange for detailed public disclosure of an invention.

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Pillar box

A pillar box is a type of free-standing post box.

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Post box

A post box (British English; also written postbox), also known as a collection box, mailbox, letter box or drop box (American English) is a physical box into which members of the public can deposit outgoing mail intended for collection by the agents of a country's postal service.

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Postmaster

A postmaster is the head of an individual post office.

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Private road

A private road is a road owned and maintained by a private individual, organization, or company rather than by a government.

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Property crime

Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism.

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RAND Corporation

RAND Corporation ("Research ANd Development") is an American nonprofit global policy think tank created in 1948 by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces.

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Rivet

A rivet is a permanent mechanical fastener.

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Rotational molding

Rotational Molding (BrE moulding) involves a heated hollow mold which is filled with a charge or shot weight of material.

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Royal Mail

Royal Mail plc (Post Brenhinol; a' Phuist Rìoghail) is a postal service and courier company in the United Kingdom, originally established in 1516.

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Rural area

In general, a rural area or countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities.

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Rural Free Delivery

Rural Free Delivery (RFD) is a service which began in the United States in the late 19th century, to deliver mail directly to rural farm families.

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Sapulpa, Oklahoma

Sapulpa is a city in Creek and Tulsa counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Sauer Buildings Historic District

Sauer Buildings Historic District, located between 607–717 Center Avenue in Aspinwall, Pennsylvania, consists of a group of buildings designed and built by Frederick C. Sauer from 1898 until his death in 1942.

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Screw

A screw is a type of fastener, in some ways similar to a bolt (see Differentiation between bolt and screw below), typically made of metal, and characterized by a helical ridge, known as a male thread (external thread).

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Seal (mechanical)

A mechanical seal is a device that helps join systems or mechanisms together by preventing leakage (e.g. in a plumbing system), containing pressure, or excluding contamination.

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Sheet metal

Sheet metal is metal formed by an industrial process into thin, flat pieces.

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Spring (device)

A spring is an elastic object that stores mechanical energy.

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Suburb

A suburb is a mixed-use or residential area, existing either as part of a city or urban area or as a separate residential community within commuting distance of a city.

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Support (structure)

A support can refer to a variety of structures in architecture that includes arches, beams, columns, balconies, and stretchers.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Tin box

A tin box is a tinplate container.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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Urban area

An urban area is a human settlement with high population density and infrastructure of built environment.

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Wagon

A wagon (also alternatively and archaically spelt waggon in British and Commonwealth English) is a heavy four-wheeled vehicle pulled by draught animals or on occasion by humans (see below), used for transporting goods, commodities, agricultural materials, supplies and sometimes people.

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Wakefield Museum

Wakefield Museum is a local museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, north England, covering the history of the city of Wakefield and the local area from prehistoric times onwards.

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Wall

A wall is a structure that defines an area, carries a load, or provides shelter or security.

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Wall box

Wall boxes are a type of post box or letter box found in many countries including France, the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth of Nations, Crown dependencies and Ireland.

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Weatherization

Weatherization (American English) or weatherproofing (British English) is the practice of protecting a building and its interior from the elements, particularly from sunlight, precipitation, and wind, and of modifying a building to reduce energy consumption and optimize energy efficiency.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_box

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