📫️ Closed mailbox with raised flag emoji

What is 📫️ called?

📫️ is called the Closed mailbox with raised flag emoji.

What does 📫️ mean?

📫 is officially named closed mailbox with raised flag. A closed mailbox with raised flag, representing outgoing mail ready for pickup, traditional mail systems, and communication awaiting postal collection. The raised flag signals to mail carriers that outgoing mail is present.

Use it for literal references to closed mailbox with raised flag and for outgoing mail, postal pickup, traditional mail, residential mail service, mail collection. In US-style rural mailboxes, a raised carrier flag traditionally signals outgoing mail awaiting collection; it does not universally mean new incoming mail. Related choices include 📦 Package and 📪 Closed mailbox with lowered flag.

Other meanings

It can mean outgoing mail, postal pickup, traditional mail, residential mail service, mail collection. Context determines whether a message is postal, messaging, delivery, voting, interface, or figurative.

Example Usage

Put the letter in the mailbox 📫 and raised the flag for pickup

The document, money, or mail update uses closed mailbox with raised flag 📫

More details

Officially named closed mailbox with raised flag. Its code point is U+1F4EB. It was introduced in Emoji 1.0.

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Visual description

A traditional residential mailbox in closed position with the flag raised upward, indicating outgoing mail awaiting pickup by postal carriers.

In US-style rural mailboxes, a raised carrier flag traditionally signals outgoing mail awaiting collection; it does not universally mean new incoming mail. Colours, proportions, orientation, and fine details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.