• Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    To me, a letterbox is generally attached to a house, often it’s just a slot on the front door. And a mailbox is on a post near the street

    You’re coming across as an unintelligent pedant right now.

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      1 year ago

      Not really. Letters are generally of a known size so a house-side box is used to receive letters. It’s a letterbox. Then mailboxes, which you may note are generally much larger than house-sixe boxes, are intended for more than letters, and are sized as such. They care called mailboxes dur to them holding more than letters/envolopes.

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      1 year ago

      Please explain? After doing some quick googling, it looks like my interpretation is pretty accurate. But again this could be due to localized results. I’m not going to pretend all English speakers use the same words for the same things.

      You could drop the hostility though.

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        1 year ago

        The two are used fairly interchangeably, in my experience. Usually someone uses one or the other depending on where they’re from.