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
Similarly, patients should keep track of all materials related to an insurance appeal — records of phone calls, emails, snail mail, and in-app messages.
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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
The action sports denizens would then snail mail the tapes to the agency.
—Daniel Kaplan, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
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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
The action sports denizens would then snail mail the tapes to the agency.
—Daniel Kaplan, HollywoodReporter, 21 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail mail
Noun
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For those who want to volunteer, contact the Loveland Chamber of Commerce, but know that the combination of a decline in the amount of mail and the increase in volunteers means there may not be much need.—
Mindy Sink,
Denver Post,
27 Jan. 2026
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Customers in Wisconsin may experience mail and package delivery delays due to the winter weather, several delivery companies said over the past few days.—
Eva Wen,
jsonline.com,
27 Jan. 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
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Tools like Voltaire, an AI platform built specifically for insurance correspondence, represent a new category of defensive AI.—
Connie Etemadi,
USA Today,
27 Jan. 2026
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Simple issues can be reviewed by correspondence.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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“Snail mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail%20mail. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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