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diplomatic bag

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noun

  1. a container or bag in which official mail is sent, free from customs inspection, to and from an embassy or consulate

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"What is obtained," police wrote, "is compensation in terms of prestige, privileges and social relations, not to mention the coveted diplomatic bag … that crosses borders without any control."

From Salon Dec. 23, 2022

Pope Francis has still not replied to a letter she wrote to him after the Vatican decision, despite it being sent by diplomatic bag.

From New York Times Mar. 16, 2018

Take the 2015 case of the first secretary of North Korea’s embassy in Dhaka, who was found to be carrying a diplomatic bag full of 170 undeclared gold bars worth an estimated $1.4 million.

From Seattle Times Feb. 27, 2017

Madrid denied that its officers had opened any diplomatic bag, which are typically used to carry official correspondence.

From Reuters Nov. 26, 2013

But all my efforts failed to convince them, and I had to send the portrait, in Lord Berners' name, to the British Ambassador in Rome, who later forwarded it to Paris in the diplomatic bag.

From An Autobiography by Igor Stravinsky

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