curb service

alternative curbside service

1. USuncountableAn exchange, such as ordering and delivery of fast food, which occurs when a worker comes outside to interact with a customer who remains within their stopped vehicle.

   Despite a reported police crackdown, young men selling illegal fireworks were providing their usual Fourth of July curb service to passing motorists yesterday.

   1987 July 4, William E. Geist, “About New York: July 3d Languor”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Aug 2014

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   Ernest H. Carter was fined $550 for drunken driving after he pulled into a brightly illuminated suburban police station, tooted his horn, told a cop he was there for curb service, ordered coffee and a hamburger.

   1958 July 21, “Miscellany”, in Time, retrieved 01 Aug 2014

   The U.S. Postal Service says "curb service" will also be available tomorrow night so that taxpayers can drive up to the post office and hand the forms, in stamped envelopes, to postal employees.

   2005 April 14, Bruce C.T. Wright, “Four Post Offices Will Close Late for Tax Filers”, in Washington Post, retrieved 01 Aug 2014

2. USuncountableConvenient pickup of one's items, such as garbage or baggage, from the roadside; convenient delivery of items to the roadside near one's location.

   Two bulk items are allowed for curb service on the last Friday of each month only.

   2013 March 18, “Trash Pickup”, in City of Velda City, Missouri, retrieved 01 Aug 2014

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   George Barry, the dump's manager, found $8,500 in negotiable securities. He delivered them to the door of the woman who had thrown them out, a kind of reverse curb service.

   1985 August 2, Dudley Clendinen, “About Boston: A Garbage Dump That Is the Town Showpiece”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Aug 2014

   In San Diego, they have curb service check-in. You show your eTicket and drop your bags off with a skycap.

   2007 January 9, “If I use Southwest Airlines online check-in.......?”, in Yahoo Answers, retrieved 01 Aug 2014