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
Investors received monthly statements by snail mail; Bernie’s two programmers used a nearly obsolete software program on obsolete IBM computers to create fake stock trades.
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Richard Behar,
Forbes.com,
16 Mar. 2026
In the end, the public voted via snail mail for a person who embodied perhaps the exact opposite of both — Miskel Spillman, an elderly widow whose first plane ride ever brought her to New York City to stand beside her fellow finalists.
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Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
Below, some of them explain the appeal of snail mail and give recommendations for getting started.
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Cheyanne Mumphrey,
Fortune,
17 Jan. 2026
But who doesn't love to receive a little snail mail?
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Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for snail mail
Richard Behar,
Forbes.com,
16 Mar. 2026
In the end, the public voted via snail mail for a person who embodied perhaps the exact opposite of both — Miskel Spillman, an elderly widow whose first plane ride ever brought her to New York City to stand beside her fellow finalists.
—
Sandra Gonzalez,
CNN Money,
30 Jan. 2026
Below, some of them explain the appeal of snail mail and give recommendations for getting started.
—
Cheyanne Mumphrey,
Fortune,
17 Jan. 2026
But who doesn't love to receive a little snail mail?
—
Sam Woodward,
USA Today,
2 Jan. 2026
See All Example Sentences for snail mail
Recent Examples of Synonyms for snail mail
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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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Competition also came from airlines and intercity bus lines that could easily carry parcel post on their routes.
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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.
Noun
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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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“Snail mail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snail%20mail. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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