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
Workers aged 60 and older who do not have online accounts can still receive hard-copy statements via snail mail.
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David Rae, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
This finding, coupled with the growing evidence of snail mail's resurgence in the face of digital media overload, suggests that traditional marketing strategies may still hold significant value.
—R. Paul Singh, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
But my husband cut him out and Dad was left for years making fruitless communication attempts via email, voice messages — even snail mail.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Wedding invitations, once a snail mail exclusive industry, now go beyond even email inboxes after the peak of digital invite services created in the '90s and aughts.
—April Rubin, Axios, 18 Aug. 2024
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David Rae, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
This finding, coupled with the growing evidence of snail mail's resurgence in the face of digital media overload, suggests that traditional marketing strategies may still hold significant value.
—R. Paul Singh, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
But my husband cut him out and Dad was left for years making fruitless communication attempts via email, voice messages — even snail mail.
—Gillian Telling, People.com, 16 Oct. 2024
Wedding invitations, once a snail mail exclusive industry, now go beyond even email inboxes after the peak of digital invite services created in the '90s and aughts.
—April Rubin, Axios, 18 Aug. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail mail
Noun
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Read Next National Postal worker stole $36,000 of checks from mail and forged them, feds say.—
Mike Stunson,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Turow took a job at the U.S. attorney’s office in Chicago and plunged into high-profile trial work, successfully prosecuting a Cook County judge charged with mail fraud and extortion, among other cases.—
Sarah Lyall,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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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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Inside her was the growing awareness that Sebastien had only been writing her, Dani, out of a sense of duty, all the while hotly suffering a much more grownup correspondence with the incredible Yvonne.—
Sheila Heti,
The New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2025
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Chambers mentions a lamp by Pasadena artist Ashoke Chhabra and his great-uncle Charles Dockum’s mobile color projector, as well as Dockum’s correspondence with architect Frank Lloyd Wright.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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“Snail mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail%20mail. Accessed 27 Jan. 2025.
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