局きょく留どめ

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Common word›Freq.FrequencyTop 100,000

Meanings

poste restante; general delivery; counter collection

A postal service where mail is held at a post office for the recipient to collect, rather than being delivered to an address.

While traveling, I had my mail held at the post office for collection.

局きょく留どめで送おくれば、確かく実じつに受うけ取とれます。

If you send it by poste restante, you can receive it reliably.

〈物もの〉を局きょく留どめにするto have something sent poste restante
荷に物もつを局きょく留どめにして、旅りょ行こう先さきの郵ゆう便びん局きょくで受うけ取とった。
I had the package sent poste restante and picked it up at the post office at my destination.
局きょく留どめで受うけ取とるto pick up mail via poste restante
住じゅう所しょが決きまっていなかったので、手て紙がみを局きょく留どめで受うけ取とった。

私し書しょ箱ばこ
局留め holds mail temporarily at a post office counter for pickup, while 私書箱 is a rented private box at the post office with its own box number for regular mail.

配はい達たつN3
局留め means mail is held at the post office for the recipient to pick up, whereas 配達 means the mail is delivered directly to an address.

局きょく留どめUsage76%
Standard kanji spelling; the most common written form.
局きょく留どめUsage24%
Abbreviated spelling, sometimes seen in informal contexts or on labels.

Compound of 局 (post office) and 留め (stopping, holding). The term refers to the practice of holding mail at a post office for pickup.

Since I didn't have a fixed address, I picked up the letter poste restante.