Closed Mailbox With Lowered Flag
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Empty Mailbox·No Mail·Lowered Flag
Dead Mailbox·Silent Box
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About
The Closed Mailbox With Lowered Flag emoji (📪) is the digital equivalent of tumbleweeds—it signals radio silence and empty inboxes. People reach for this when they're emphasizing that the communication pipeline has officially dried up, whether they're complaining about being left on read or announcing they're going off the grid.
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When to use 📪️
- →Complaining about being ignored or getting no replies
- →Announcing you're taking a break from social media
- →Expressing disappointment about lack of communication
- →Indicating an empty inbox or no new messages
- →Showing that correspondence has stopped
Keywords
closedmailboxwithloweredflagmailpostboxobjects
Related Concepts
no messagesempty inboxsilenceignoredofflineno responsecommunication breakdowndigital detoxabandoned
Unicode
- Codepoint
- 1F4EA
- Unicode Version
- 6.1
- Added in Emoji
- 0.6
Did you know?
The lowered flag detail is a nod to real postal tradition—mail carriers raise the flag when picking up outgoing mail and lower it when the box is empty, making this emoji surprisingly accurate to actual mailbox etiquette.
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