as in mail
communications or parcels sent or carried through the postal system
only parcel post bearing a return address and not exceeding size and weight limits will be accepted
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Recent Examples of parcel post
Competition also came from airlines and intercity bus lines that could easily carry parcel post on their routes.
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Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
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
The flag arrived at the New York office of the Associated Press in May and was then sent by parcel post to the White House.
—Richard Kurin, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Feb. 2024
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
The flag arrived at the New York office of the Associated Press in May and was then sent by parcel post to the White House.
—Richard Kurin, Smithsonian, 30 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parcel post
Noun
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Air mail from New York City to me takes two or three days, only slightly longer than the average time between NYC and Vermont or Pennsylvania.—
John Updike,
New Yorker,
11 July 2025
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Owners affected by the recall will begin receiving notifications by mail from Monday, July 14, but an official fix has not yet been disclosed by the carmaker.—
Matthew Robinson,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 July 2025
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That is what work looks like when it is deeply felt, when the audience’s concerns become ours, passed by bucket brigade from the subjects of our stories, to correspondence, to producers, to editors, fact checkers and writers.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
3 July 2025
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There are no publicly available details about the schedule for the visit, though Trump received the first correspondence from the King directly from Prime Minister Keir Starmer in February, and spoke about it during a press conference with the Prime Minister.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
30 June 2025
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“Parcel post.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel%20post. Accessed 16 Jul. 2025.
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