Definitions

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  • noun A place where postal mail is received and then forwarded to another address, used for anonymity or as a fixed address for somebody who is travelling.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a drop where mail can be deposited

Etymologies

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mail +‎ drop

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Examples

  • You could also get a maildrop outside the county limits so all your assets never “touched” Maricopa soil

    Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Local Governments Mining for Dollars 2009

  • I had to give the Chula Vista maildrop because Kaiser does not offer care (other than emergency) to members who live outside their area of coverage.

    Seasonal Living and Health Insurance 2007

  • I had to give the Chula Vista maildrop because Kaiser does not offer care (other than emergency) to members who live outside their area of coverage.

    Seasonal Living and Health Insurance 2007

  • I had to give the Chula Vista maildrop because Kaiser does not offer care (other than emergency) to members who live outside their area of coverage.

    Seasonal Living and Health Insurance 2007

  • I had to give the Chula Vista maildrop because Kaiser does not offer care (other than emergency) to members who live outside their area of coverage.

    Seasonal Living and Health Insurance 2007

  • I had to give the Chula Vista maildrop because Kaiser does not offer care (other than emergency) to members who live outside their area of coverage.

    Seasonal Living and Health Insurance 2007

  • Contemporary information consumers expect to be kept engaged not only every 7, or 30, or 60 days when your book hits the maildrop, but every day in-between.

    Mike Doyle: Five Suicidal Print Media Assumptions 2009

  • I had to give the Chula Vista maildrop because Kaiser does not offer care (other than emergency) to members who live outside their area of coverage.

    Seasonal Living and Health Insurance 2007

  • You'll recognize the Zorba's backlot abode from its later incarnation as the maildrop of THE MUNSTERS and it's fun to imagine 13 GHOSTS as a weekly series, with Buck instigating one adventure-slash-haunting after another, aided and abetted by Medea, and ultimatley saved from early death/spirit possession/vampirism/werewolfism by the intervention of his long-suffering but loving parents who sleep in separate beds and must have ordered their children from Montgomery Ward.

    "They go with the house." Arbogast 2009

  • Did she have a maildrop or other official address in the US while you lived in Mexico and was that a problem?

    Opt out of Medicare B? 2007

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