Open mailbox with lowered flag emoji meaning

The open mailbox with lowered flag emoji shows an open mailbox that is empty, with its flag lowered. This lowered flag typically means that there is no new mail inside or that any outgoing mail has already been collected. The emoji often represents themes related to communication, mail, letters, or updates about deliveries. It can also symbolize waiting for a message or a lack of recent correspondence. This emoji is a simple way to talk about mail services or anything related to sending and receiving messages in the physical or digital world.

The open mailbox with lowered flag emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/11052