Flag folded down, door still shut: the settled-down half of 📫 Closed Mailbox With Raised Flag, once whatever was waiting has actually gone out. Nine times out of ten it's typed to mean nothing more dramatic than an ordinary mailbox with no news either way.
What 📪 means
The same mailbox as in the 📫 Closed Mailbox With Raised Flag, but with the carrier signal flag in red lowered to the side. The 📪 Closed Mailbox With Lowered Flag emoji signifies outgoing mail that's been successfully picked up.
How and when to use it
- 📪 could intend that there are no more outgoing mails, which means you have nothing more to send or give. Hence, this emoji may be used metaphorically surrounding the same essence - "I've given all I had 📪" or "You can never run out of things to offer 📪" (beautiful irony? yes).
- 📪 may also mean that there's no incoming mail. So if you're texting that you haven't received a letter or mail from someone, you can use this emoji. Like, "It's been a while since I heard from her 📪".
- You could also use 📪 while exclaiming that you have no more mails to send; it could be from a festive POV or even a professional one. For example, "All Christmas postcards are out and on the way! 📪".
- While informing that a particular post has been picked up, use 📪. You can also use this emoji while letting someone know the date and/or time when mails are generally picked.
Other Names
- 📪 Picked Up Outgoing Mail
- 📪 No Incoming Mail
- 📪 Mailbox With Lowered Flag
- 📪 Outgoing Mail
- 📪 Outgoing Letters Sent
- 📪 Outgoing Posts Picked Up
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › mail
- Codepoints
U+1F4EA- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:mailbox_closed:- Keywords
- closed, flag, lowered, mail, mailbox, postbox
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 📪 Closed Mailbox with Lowered Flag or 👨👧👧 Family: Man, Girl, Girl?