snail-mail
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| :snail-mail: /n./ Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the single word SnailMail. Ones postal address is, correspondingly, a snail address. Derives from earlier coinage USnail (from U.S. Mail), for which there have even been parody posters and stamps made. Also (less commonly) called P-mail, from paper mail or physical mail. Oppose email. | |
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