Definitions
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- noun   A place where 
postal mail is received and thenforwarded to another address, used foranonymity 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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Examples
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Did she have a maildrop or other official address in the US while you lived in Mexico and was that a problem?
 
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