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Express Mail

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  1. an expedited domestic mailing service of the U.S. Postal Service, usually guaranteeing delivery overnight or within 24 hours.

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Express mail and delivery companies are used to ship the packages from China or India to Europe in as little as two days.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2016

Express mail and remittance mail services would continue seven days a week.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2010

Express mail services also would continue seven days a week.

From Washington Post • Mar. 22, 2010

Yugoslavs suspected their own government of wanting something out of the Orient Express mail car and getting it.

From Time Magazine Archive

At this place the California Express mail stops to take letters back to the States for the emigrants.—The price of sending back a letter is 50 cents.

From Journal of a Trip to California by the Overland Route Across the Plains in 1850-51 by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

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