box number
nounEtymology Literally, the number of a box into which mail for a particular recipient is placed.
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A numerical address for postal correspondence, managed by a company or organisation on behalf of the addressee, and used e.g. for convenience, if one does not have a suitable physical address for receiving mail, or to avoid giving one's real address (e.g. in a newspaper advertisement).
- They didn't give me a proper address, only a box number.
- Would anyone with knowledge of the present whereabouts of Mrs Doris Miggins, formerly of Station Road, please contact Box No. 99, Puddletown Evening Gazette.