Sharing Folder between accounts

I have two users (two separate accounts) on my machine, both with admin privileges. How can we share a certain folder so all can access it? For example, if user A creates a word document in his account A, he'd like to drop it into a folder still under account A, and when user B logs into his own account (B), he can access the shared folder and word document created by A.
We tried using the Public Folder and Drop Box inside, but when A drags the word doc to his Drop Box, it doesn't appear in the account B Drop Box.
How to share work across user accounts? TIA!

The /User/Shared folder contains (read/write) files shared between all users, and a user's ~/Public folder contains (read only) files that they want to share with others. The ~/Public/Drop Box is used to pass files between users - for example, user A drops a file on the drop box of user B.

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