as in mail
communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system
even though she has an e-mail account, she still prefers to send snail mail
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Recent Examples of snail mail
Cute stamps and stationary sets are fueling Gen Z and millennials’ return to sending snail mail.
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2025
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
—Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
—Lauren Sausser, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2025
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Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Dec. 2025
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
—Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2025
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
—Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
—Lauren Sausser, NBC news, 23 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail mail
Noun
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For the runoff, the voter registration deadline is April 27, early voting is scheduled for May 9 through May 22, and mail ballot requests must be received by May 15.—
CBS Texas Staff,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Courts typically notify individuals of jury service by mail.—
Maria Salette Ontiveros,
Dallas Morning News,
3 Mar. 2026
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Competition also came from airlines and intercity bus lines that could easily carry parcel post on their routes.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
24 Feb. 2024
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Extending parcel post to the countryside was vehemently opposed by merchants, who feared competition from Sears Roebuck and other mail order houses.—
Tom Dillard,
Arkansas Online,
14 Mar. 2021
Noun
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But Alberto Pinto and his sister Linda Pinto, who ran the company after Alberto’s death in 2012, have a special place in the correspondence with Epstein.—
Adam Robb,
Curbed,
3 Mar. 2026
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The correspondence offers the clearest explanation yet for Washington’s refusal to pay, injecting fresh uncertainty into questions about whether any of the $608 million Florida is seeking will ever materialize — and what part of the bill Florida taxpayers will have to foot.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Snail mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail%20mail. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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