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[-] [email protected] -4 points 11 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

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

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