Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings is a box-set by The Police, containing all of their studio albums in chronological order, as well as singles, B-sides, and tracks from various compilation albums and the Brimstone and Treacle soundtrack.

Disc 1 opens with the band's first single, "Fall Out"/"Nothing Achieving", featuring Henry Padovani on guitar and another track previously unavailable on CD, "Dead End Job". It proceeds with the contents of their first album, Outlandos d'Amour, followed by live renditions of "Landlord" and "Next to You", and the studio version of "Landlord". The first half of the group's second album Regatta de Blanc concludes the disc.

Disc 2 starts with the rest of Regatta de Blanc. It is followed by the B-side "Visions of the Night", a mono mix of "The Bed's Too Big Without You", a mono live version of "Truth Hits Everybody," and another B-side, "Friends". Completing the disc are the contents of The Police's third album, Zenyatta Mondatta.

Disc 3 opens with the B-side "A Sermon", a live version of "Driven to Tears", and the non-album instrumental track "Shambelle". Then, it moves to the band's fourth album, Ghost in the Machine and then concludes with four more bonus tracks: the instrumental "Flexible Strategies", "Low Life", and two songs from the soundtrack of the 1982 movie Brimstone and Treacle, "How Stupid Mr. Bates", and "A Kind of Loving".

Disc 4 contains the band's last album, Synchronicity, plus many bonus tracks: "Someone to Talk To", sung by Andy Summers, a live recording of "Message in a Bottle", "I Burn for You" (also from Brimstone and Treacle), "Once Upon a Daydream", and a live version of "Tea in the Sahara". The box-set concludes with "Don't Stand So Close to Me '86", originally released on the compilation Every Breath You Take: The Singles.