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Synonyms of snail 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
Synonyms for snail mail
- correspondence,
- mail,
- matter,
- parcel post,
- post
- [chiefly British]
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