Definition of snail mail
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: mail delivered by a postal system
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: mail 3
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Examples of snail mail in a Sentence
She still uses snail mail for paying bills.
I can be contacted by e-mail and snail mail.
Recent Examples of snail mail from the Web
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According to the magazine, Cohn tried to convince Trump that Amazon is in fact an economic lifeline for the USPS, as fewer people rely on snail mail other than package delivery in the digital age.
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Two liked to snail mail their favorite poems to me.
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These people have brought me flowers, sent me actual, tangible snail mail, and visited me in the hospital bearing gifts to cheer me up.
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Today, despite the advent of more modern communications like email and texting, hundreds of thousands of children, from all over the globe, continue to send their Christmas wish lists to Santa using old-fashioned snail mail.
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Serra himself communicates by snail mail, so the image having gone viral must have been particularly amazing to him.
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Letting emails and snail mail pile up in your inboxes is the kiss of death.
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Instead, information seekers would have to submit by fax or snail mail, or use a new electronic portal that would limit FOIA applicants to one request per day and accept submissions only from 4 a.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday.
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Watch the snail mail for the letters telling you you've been compromised, too.
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First Known Use of snail mail
1982
snail mail Synonyms
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Related Words
airmail, airpost, certified mail, registered mail, rural delivery, rural free delivery, special delivery, special handling;
direct mail, junk mail, mailer;
card, dispatch, epistle, letter, message, missive, note, postal card, postcard, printed matter;
SNAIL MAIL Defined for English Language Learners
snail mail
Definition of snail mail for English Language Learners
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: ordinary mail that is delivered by a postal system : mail that is not e-mail
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