Postal Service! Highlight your mailing needs with the Postbox emoji, a symbol of public mail collection.
A red postbox, representing a public mailbox. The Postbox emoji is commonly used to discuss mailing letters, using the postal service, or sending mail. If someone sends you a 📮 emoji, it might mean they are talking about mailing something, using postal services, or referencing public mailboxes.
The 📮 Postbox emoji represents or means a physical postal collection box used for sending mail through the postal service.
Simply click on the 📮 emoji above to instantly copy it to your clipboard. You can then paste it anywhere - in messages, social media, documents, or any app that supports emojis.
The 📮 postbox emoji was introduced in Emoji E0.6 and is now supported across all major platforms including iOS, Android, Windows, and macOS.
The 📮 postbox emoji belongs to the Objects category, specifically in the Mail subcategory.
The design is based on Japanese postal boxes (red pillars) and British Royal Mail boxes, both traditionally red. While US mailboxes are blue, the red design became the Unicode standard since emoji originated in Japan.