forwarding addressnoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈfɔː.wə.dɪŋ əˌdres/us/ˈfɔːr.wɚ.dɪŋ ˌæd.res/where you want your post sent after you have left the address at which it will arrive
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Communications - the postal system
- certified mail
- consign
- direct mail
- express
- letterbox
- mail slot
- mailbag
- mass mailing
- p. and p.
- parcel post
- pillar box
- pin code
- PO
- postmaster
- shipping and handling
- snail mail
- surface mail
- window
- zip code
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Examples from literature
- He had left that as his forwarding address, the hotel clerk said.
- If I may ask, please send me your forwarding address.
- No. She didn't even leave a forwarding address for her mail.
- Nor could I get in touch with him because he had a six-week interim vacation and planned a long, slow jaunt through Yellowstone, with neither schedule nor forwarding addresses.
- Of course this proved nothing, for Jerry might have been using his bank for a forwarding address, but the little I knew fitted surprisingly well with my own guesses as to Jerry's destiny.