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.
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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.
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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
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Any unsolicited contact about the estate, by phone, mail, or email, should be verified directly with your attorney before any response.
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Someone stole a check in a woman’s outgoing mail between June 8 and June 10.
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But any correspondence between string theory and experiment is gratifying to Vafa, who has spent the past four decades trying to wrest the theory from the purely conceptual realm to the point of generating testable predictions.
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Even as Kodak filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and emerged as a significantly smaller company, many Lambda members kept their records, giving us access to a unique archive that includes corporate policies, correspondence, photographs and video footage.
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“Parcel post.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel%20post. Accessed 28 Jun. 2026.
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