This is another reason why you might find yourself using more than just Mailbox to access your Gmail account.

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But after making both the newspaper and pillow requests, we received two messages in our Conrad Concierge app mailbox: One flagged an error with our request, and another said our request had been submitted. (We decided to be optimistic.) You can also request to have a text-message confirmation sent to your phone, too.

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Another dog was, on the opposite side of the road, a few feet from the mailbox.

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