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.
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Richard Kurin,
Smithsonian,
30 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for parcel post
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Post offices will, however, be open on Friday, July 3 and mail delivery will occur as normal.
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States can still count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, a blow to Republicans who had pushed for stricter regulations.
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Fragments of email correspondence appear alongside bits of dialogue, histories of apocalyptic movements in Korea, and poems about the nature of time and the Bardo (the Tibetan Buddhist concept for the transitional period between death and rebirth).
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Details of the letter and other correspondence were described to The Times by two district sources who reviewed the document.
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“Parcel post.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel%20post. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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