How to Use lost in the mail in a Sentence

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• That is, picks that won't get lost in the mail and have a personal touch.
  — Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Dec. 2022
• On top of that, his friends could no longer attend because their wristbands got lost in the mail.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 18 Nov. 2021
• There have been cases through the years of sets of paper exams getting lost in the mail.
  — Carolyn Thompson, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Jan. 2022
• How many voters did not send ballots back or how many ballots may have been lost in the mail is unclear.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, The Indianapolis Star, 30 June 2020
• The pollen that was supposed to pollenate Morticia got lost in the mail.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2022
• There was a shipping fiasco, says Atkinson, and the pollen got lost in the mail.
  — Bebe Hodges, The Enquirer, 5 Aug. 2022
• Others are peddling murky science—and not just because poop samples are getting lost in the mail.
  — Hannah Norman, Quartz, 26 Aug. 2021
• Others are peddling murky science — and not just because poop samples are getting lost in the mail.
  — NBC News, 21 Aug. 2021
• Sadly my invitation to the coronation has been lost in the mail!
  — Michael Stillwell, Town & Country, 5 Apr. 2023
• Perhaps the form gets lost in the mail, the taxpayer moves, or unwittingly ignores the form.
  — Robert W. Wood, Forbes, 19 Oct. 2021
• Many, particularly those who file paper returns, end up being unsure whether the return was somehow lost in the mail.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2022
• Alberts said people with bank accounts get the payments more quickly through direct deposit than paper checks — and without worrying if the payment got lost in the mail.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Aug. 2021
• Clad in an all-black dress jacket and shirt, the immigrant — who was identified only by the number of his case — swears that his last immigration notice was lost in the mail.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 22 Dec. 2025
• The disclosure has created considerable confusion about the whereabouts of the ballots, but there is no evidence so far that that many ballots are lost in the mail.
  — Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• Our invite must've gotten lost in the mail, but with a busy tour schedule and new upcoming album, LeAnn probably just forgot to send us the party address.
  — Chaise Sanders, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2022
• These included inquiries about driver licenses not mailed in a timely manner to social security documents being lost in the mail.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Feb. 2024
• That was before or after the dog ate the homework, the check got lost in the mail, and whatever else Michigan folks have thrown out there already to suggest they are unfairly persecuted.
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
• Under current policy, if that card is stolen or lost in the mail, the SSA will not issue the child a new number until the child is the victim of fraud and reports it.
  — Suzanne Blake, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025
• Even if your invitation to this year's Met Gala got lost in the mail, an A-list glow is just a few best-selling products away with Wilde's latest red carpet routine.
  — Kelsey Mulvey, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 May 2023
• Possible reasons for differences, Luscombe said, might involve a situation where advance payments ended up going to a different bank account or a check was lost in the mail.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 15 Jan. 2022
• Mercury’s direct station on September 15th helps course-correct any ships lost at sea, packages lost in the mail, and GPS signals scrambled in the airwaves.
  — Steph Koyfman, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Aug. 2023
• The family of a Georgia man who died in 2019 is seeking restitution after the man's remains were inexplicably lost in the mail and never recovered.
  — Mary Ellen Cagnassola, PEOPLE.com, 7 Apr. 2022
• Udevitz cited a recent news article that described ballots from multiple rural Alaska communities going uncounted after getting lost in the mail.
  — Annie Berman, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• That decision was subsequently appealed by the association to the Circuit Court for Palm Beach County, which concluded that the letter was likely lost in the mail and the association did not willfully deny access to the records.
  — Laura Manning-Hudson, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025