mail-order house

noun

a retail firm that conducts its business by receiving orders and shipping its merchandise through the mail and that supplies its customers with catalogs, circulars, etc.

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

Describe the necessary routine in entering and filling orders in a mail-order house shipping all goods by express.

We have in mind a certain mail order house that up to 1894 had things its own way.

And I'm going to write for almond-meal and glycerin from the mail-order house to-morrow.

I also got a lot of small stuff I'd written for from the mail-order house, little feminine things a woman simply has to have.

One is unable to state whether John H. Harris is opening a mail order house, paper and marriage agency in the other world.

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