special delivery stamp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of special delivery stamp
An Americanism dating back to 1920–25
Example Sentences
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Next morning the passport arrived at San Francisco without a special delivery stamp.
From Time Magazine Archive
A tiny Contax camera looking like a child's harmonica, with a rapid-fire F 1.3 lens had turned them out the size of a special delivery stamp.
From Time Magazine Archive
She spent most of the afternoon composing her letter and despatched it after dinner, a rather formidable manuscript under a special delivery stamp.
From Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel by Vance, Louis Joseph
So Pauline lost no time in finishing and submitting her manuscript, inclosing a special delivery stamp and a request please to let her know at once.
From The Perils of Pauline by Goddard, Charles
It had been wadded up with the envelope, and the latter showed the blue special delivery stamp.
From Tom Fairfield's Pluck and Luck by Chapman, Allen
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