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A post office box (commonly abbreviated as P.O. box, or also known as a postal box) is a uniquely addressable lockable box located on the premises of a post office station.

In some regions, particularly in Africa, there is no door to door delivery of mail; for example, in Kenya.^[1] Consequently, renting a PO box has traditionally been the only way to receive mail in such countries.

Generally, post office boxes are rented from the post office either by individuals or by businesses on a basis ranging from monthly to annual, and the cost of rent varies depending on the box size. Central business district (CBD) PO boxes are usually more expensive than rural PO boxes.

In the United States, the rental rate used to be^[when?] uniform across the country. Now, however, a postal facility can be in any of seven fee groups by location; in addition, certain customers qualify for free box rental, usually because the Postal Service does not offer carrier-route delivery to their physical addresses.

In the United Kingdom, Royal Mail PO boxes are often little more than pigeon-holes in the secure section of a sorting office and are accessible only by staff. In such cases, the renter of the PO box will be issued with a card showing the PO box number and delivery office name and must produce this to the desk staff when collecting mail. For an additional fee, the Royal Mail will deliver received items to the renter's geographical address.

Some private companies (e.g., United Parcel Service and commercial mail receiving agencies) offer similar services of renting a mailbox in a public location. The difference is that mail sent there is addressed to a street address (along with the private box number), instead of just addressed to 'PO Box CSX'.^[2]Virtual mailboxes are similar to P.O. boxes but usually provide additional services such as scanning or forwarding.

Number of boxes[edit]

The quantity of post office boxes in a station varies widely. Stations of small areas are often equipped with fewer than 100 boxes, while stations in a central business district (CBD) area may offer a combined quantity of over 200,000 post office boxes.^{[citation needed]}

Mounting of boxes[edit]

Post office boxes are usually mounted in a wall of the post office, either an external wall or a wall in a lobby, so that staff on the inside may deposit mail in a box, while a key holder (some older post office boxes use a combination dial instead of a key) in the lobby or on the outside of the building may open his or her box to retrieve the mail.

Lobby open hours[edit]

In many post offices in the U.S., the PO box lobby is separate from the window-service lobby, so that the former may be kept open for longer hours or around the clock, while the latter is locked after business hours. In the U.S. since the 1980s, in cities and large urban areas, post offices have tended to close box lobbies overnight because of the tendency of homeless people to use them for sleeping quarters. As a result, some box lobbies are accessible after hours by customers who are provided a code to a door keypad. In addition, some post offices are located in rented facilities such as shopping malls. As a result, PO boxes can only be accessed while that facility is open.

Packages[edit]

If a parcel does not fit in a PO box, the postmaster will leave a note advising that customer to pick up that parcel from the counter. In some post offices, a key will be left in the PO box that corresponds to a larger, locked box (parcel locker) where the patron may pick up his or her package if a signature is not required. Most often, in this case, once the key is used to open the larger, locked box, the key cannot be removed again by the patron, but the door cannot be secured either. Notes will also be left in the PO box in respect of cash on delivery (COD) and registered mail that has to be signed for.

In 2011, the United States Postal Service began a pilot program called 'gopost'^[3] which installed larger boxes to handle package pickup from an unstaffed station. A given box can be used by multiple customers thanks to the integration of a computer which accepts a delivery code.^[4][5]Deutsche Post started a similar concept called a Packstation in 2001.

The privately operated Amazon Locker, started in 2011, is a similar one-time-use pickup (and return) facility for parcels sent to and from the company.

Package delivery by private carriers[edit]

Until 2012, package delivery to USPS post office boxes was not available from private carriers like UPS, FedEx and others. In early 2012, the Postal Service introduced a P.O. Box Street Address (PBSA) service that allows box-holders to combine the street address of the post office where their box is located with their post office box number into a street address format.^[6][7][8] A mailing industry publication called the new service 'a great service for people who already have a PO Box and don't want their packages delivered to their home.'^[9]

Locked bags and caller service[edit]

Users receiving very large quantities of mail can use 'locked bags', which are numbered like PO boxes. In the United States, this service is called caller service, and the assigned number is called a caller number, although mail is typically addressed to 'PO Box (caller number).'^[10]

Security[edit]

Each country has its own rules and regulations as to how one can retrieve mail at a PO Box. Some countries, such as the United States or the United Kingdom, may require one or more forms of identification. Not all countries offer locked PO Boxes.

In the United States, two forms of identification are required when signing up for a PO Box; one of which must be a photo ID.

By continent[edit]

Many countries offer some type of PO Boxes for different uses. There are an increasing number of private companies that provide similar PO Box services to the official postal service privately under the guise of mail forwarding.

Africa[edit]

In Namibia, PO boxes are the only form of mail delivery to private individuals. Even small settlements feature a block of PO boxes for rent. In Windhoek, capital and the only large town, blocks of PO boxes are scattered all over the city and not necessarily located at post offices but at shopping malls, in pedestrian zones or on public places.

The South African Post Office has Post Boxes available for rent. These are usually attached to or close to a post office. In urban areas with PO Boxes for rent there also may be home delivery of mail. In rural areas Post Boxes are often compulsory as no street deliveries take place. In the areas for which there is no street delivery, Post Boxes are not charged for. Boxes and Street delivery postal codes may be the same in an area, or may differ. Private Bags are available for recipients of large mail volumes.

Cameroon uses the PO Boxes in Kumba, Yaoundé, Duoala, Bamenda, and other provinces.

Asia[edit]

In Hong Kong, PO boxes are available in two different sizes. They are available in many post offices throughout the territory.

In Japan, PO boxes are available at most post office locations. There is no cost to rent a post office box, but the renter must be able to retrieve mail regularly (daily, in principle) from the box. The renter must also rent the box for 6 months or more.^[11]

In the Philippines, PO boxes are available for rent in selected post offices. PO boxes, also known as lock boxes, are available in three sizes: small, medium and large.^[12]

In South Korea, PO boxes are available in one size at selected post offices. There is no charge for renting PO box, but renter must fetch mail at least once in 30 days. Application is only available at post office with valid ID, seal for receiving registered mail, and key fee (usually around 10,000 won). Seoul CPO box room is the only PO box in Korea with fully automated mail retrieving system.^[13]

Oceania[edit]

Australia[edit]

In Australia, wall-mounted PO boxes come in five sizes: small, medium, large, jumbo and A4. The different sizes boxes can be mixed almost completely arbitrarily on the wall. There is also an option for locked private bag which comes in two different sizes as well: small and large.^[14]

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PO boxes and private locked bags can be combined.^[14]

New Zealand[edit]

In New Zealand, customers have the option to select between two sizes of PO Boxes: small and large. There is also an option to hire a Private Bag similar to 'locked bags' in other countries. The annual fee is paid annually in advance.^[15]

Europe[edit]

Austria[edit]

In Austria, PO Boxes come in one size, and four different versions

1. Only Post addressed to the PO Box will be delivered to it,
2. All mail addressed to the address of the customer and the PO Box will be delivered to the PO Box,
3. Same as 1., but for businesses,
4. Same as 2., but for businesses, – they are generally available at all post offices throughout the country.^[16]

Only mail from Austrian Post can be delivered to an Austrian Post PO Box,^[17] but there are also private companies offering the same services.

United Kingdom[edit]

In the United Kingdom, anyone applying for a Royal Mail PO box must produce documentation to verify their home or business address.

North America[edit]

In Canada and the U.S., Postal Boxes are available in five different sizes (A, B, C, D & E). They are generally available in all post offices throughout the country.

In the United States, PO Boxes are generally available through the United States Postal Service (USPS). They are usually arranged from the smallest boxes at the top to the largest boxes at the bottom. The two largest sizes may be configured as drawers. To rent a PO Box, two different forms of identification are required. At least one of them must be a valid photo ID. This also applies to others who wish to share the box with the original subscriber's permission, and are of legal age. The post office will not forward mail from a PO Box until the box is closed, and then only to one address for all subscribers. As part of the agreement to rent a PO Box, if the PO Box is used for business, the Post Office will provide, upon request, the geographical (street) address of the business.

Street Addressing[edit]

Until 2012, only items mailed or shipped via USPS could be received at a USPS PO Box. However, a service called Street Addressing has begun to change this. Once a permission form is completed by the box holder, Street Addressing allows private shippers, such as United Parcel Service (UPS) or FedEx, to ship items to a modification of the actual street address of the Post Office where the PO Box is located. The Post Office accepts the item, and places it in the PO Box or, for larger items, handles them the same way they would a package sent via USPS. (Some have storage lockers.) Only certain Post Offices offer Street Addressing, and even for ones that do, it may not be available to all of its PO Box customers (e.g., boxes without a fee). Other restrictions also exist, including the same limitations on items that cannot otherwise be mailed by ground service though USPS. (Not to be confused with items that cannot be shipped by air.) In many cases, the package may require one additional business day for delivery, and the service was never intended for overnight delivery. Also, federal holidays not observed by the private shipper might cause a delay. If an item is shipped using Street Addressing in which the box holder did not properly sign up for, it will be returned to sender.

Street Addressing will have the same street address of the post office, plus a 'unit number' that matches the P.O. Box number. As an example, in El Centro, California, the post office is located at 1598 Main Street. Therefore, for P.O. Box 9975 (fictitious), the Street Addressing would be: 1598 Main Street Unit 9975, El Centro, CA. Nationally, the first five digits of the zip codemay or may not be the same as the P.O. Box address, and the last four digits (Zip + 4) are virtually always different. Except for a few of the largest post offices in the U.S., the 'Street Addressing' (not the P.O. Box address) nine digit Zip + 4 is the same for all boxes at a given location.

See also[edit]

• Private Mail Bag – delivered to recipient by contractor.
• Post box – used for outgoing mail.

References[edit]

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7. ^Street Addressing^{[dead link]}
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    '우체국 우편사서함 제도~ 그것이 알고싶다!!' (in Korean). Korea Post. Retrieved 19 March 2017.
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17. ^Nur Sendungen die von der Österreichischen Post zugestellt werden, gelangen ins Postfach. – English: Only mail from Austrian Post gets in your PO Box

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Box, Inc. (formerly Box.net), is an American internet company based in Redwood City, California. The company focuses on cloud content management and file sharing service for businesses. Official clients and apps are available for Windows, macOS, and several mobile platforms. Box was founded in 2005.

History[edit]

Box was originally developed as a college project of Aaron Levie while he was a student of the University of Southern California in 2004. Levie left school to run the company full-time in 2005.^[5] Levie became CEO, while his childhood friend Dylan Smith became CFO.

In October 2009, Box made its first acquisition, buying Increo Solutions for its document collaboration and preview technology.^[6]

In July 2012, Box secured $125 million in a funding round led by growth equity firm General Atlantic, joined by investors Bessemer Venture Partners, DFJ Growth, New Enterprise Associates, Sapphire Ventures (formerly SAP Ventures), Scale Venture Partners, and Social + Capital Partnership.^[7][8]

In December 2013, eight investors participated in a $100 million series F funding round. Investors included Coatue Management, DFJ Growth, Itochu Technology Ventures, Macnica Networks Corp., Mitsui & Co, Telefónica Digital, Telstra, and Telstra Ventures.^[9]

In July 2014, Box received $150 million from Coatue Management and TPG Capital in a series G funding round.^[10]

In November 2014, Box acquired two-man medical-imaging software startup MedXT for $3.84 million.^[11]

On January 23, 2015 Box held its initial public offering on the NYSE. The IPO price was $14.00. It opened at $20.20 and closed at $23.23. The IPO raised $175 million and established a market capitalization of about $1.6 billion.^[12]

In February 2015, Box acquired the company Airpost. Airpost is a cloud management service.^[13]

In January 2016, some Box employees moved into their new headquarters in downtown Redwood City, California.^[14]

In July 2018, Box acquired Butter.ai, an enterprise search company founded by Jack Hirsch and Adam Walz.^[15]

Business model[edit]

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Box is a cloud computing business which provides file sharing, collaborating, and other tools for working with files that are uploaded to its servers. Users can determine how their content can be shared with other users.^[16] Users may invite others to view and/or edit an account's shared files, upload documents and photos to a shared files folder (and thus share those documents outside Box), and give other users rights to view shared files.^[17]

Box offers three account types: Enterprise, Business and Personal.^[18] There are official clients offered for Windows and macOS, but not for Linux. A mobile version of the service is available for Android, BlackBerry 10, iOS, WebOS, and Windows Phone devices.^[19]

Box's enterprise clients include IBM,^[20]GE,^[21]Schneider Electric,^[22] and Procter & Gamble.^[23]

In December 2007 the company announced OpenBox 2, which allows developers to create services that interact with files on both Box.com and competing web-based applications and services. The application programming interface is implemented over conventional XML.^[24]

Events[edit]

BoxWorks[edit]

BoxWorks is an annual conference hosted by Box featuring presentations, feature announcements and working sessions to assist users.^[25]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^https://www.boxinvestorrelations.com/news-and-media/news/press-release-details/2020/Box-Reports-Revenue-of-696-Million-for-Fiscal-Year-2020-Up-14-Percent-Year-Over-Year-and-Delivers-First-Full-Year-of-Non-GAAP-Profitability/default.aspx
2. ^Freytas-tamura, Kimiko De (March 31, 2013). 'Box, a Data Storage Company, Prepares to Expand in Europe' – via NYTimes.com.
3. ^Rachel King (March 6, 2014). 'How Aaron Levie and his childhood friends built Box into a $2 billion business,Box V4, without stabbing each other in the back'. TechRepublic. Retrieved December 1, 2016. Development for Box, then Box.net, started at the end of 2004, but really got off the ground and went online in 2005 during their second years of college.
4. ^Aaron Levie (September 14, 2011). 'Commentary: Why we had to leave Seattle to build Box.net'. GeekWire. Retrieved December 1, 2016. Box – which now competes with Redmond's very own Microsoft SharePoint – had been started in early '05 from college dorm rooms in California and North Carolina.
5. ^Mazarakis, Anna; Shontell, Alyson. ''I was having nightmares for a few weeks': Box CEO Aaron Levie reveals how hard it was to build a $2.5 billion business and take it public by age 29'. Business Insider. Retrieved September 21, 2017.
6. ^Arrington, Michael. 'Box.net Acquires Increo Solutions To Expand Document Collaboration And Sharing'. TechCrunch. Retrieved October 2, 2016.
7. ^Ha, Anthony. 'Box Raises $125M To Target Global Growth And Large Enterprises, Round Led By General Atlantic'. TechCrunch. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
8. ^'Box Announces $125 Million Investment to Fuel Enterprise Growth'. General Atlantic website. Archived from the original on September 2, 2017. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
9. ^Darrow, Barb. 'Yowza: Box touts $100M investment to fund global land grab'. Gigaom. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
10. ^Wilhelm, Alex. 'Box Picks Up $150M More As It Waits For Favorable IPO Winds'. TechCrunch. Retrieved December 16, 2015.
11. ^By Jordan Novet, VentureBeat. 'Box paid out $3.8M in stock to buy MedXT.' November 17, 2014. November 17, 2014.
12. ^Matt Egan, CNN Money. 'Box jumps 66% in first big IPO of 2015.'
13. ^'Box Acquires Cloud Management Startup Airpost – TechCrunch'. techcrunch.com. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
14. ^'Redwood City Welcomes First Wave of Box Employees – RealSmart Group'. realsmartgroup.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
15. ^'Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter'. TechCrunch. Retrieved October 30, 2020.
16. ^'Box Privacy Policy'. box.com.
17. ^'Privacy Policy'. Box. June 13, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
18. ^'Select a Plan'. Box. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
19. ^'Box Mobile Access'. Box.com. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
20. ^'IBM and Box Forge Global Partnership to Transform Work in the Cloud'.
21. ^Ron Miller. 'Box Scores Huge Win With GE'. TechCrunch. AOL.
22. ^'Consumer Technology'. CIO.
23. ^'How P&G Promotes Box File Sharing'. InformationWeek.
24. ^'Box Platform Developer Documentation / Welcome to the Box Platform'. Developers.box.net. Archived from the original on June 22, 2013. Retrieved June 27, 2013.
25. ^'What to expect from BoxWorks 2017'. Cloud Pro. Retrieved June 7, 2018.

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