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parcel post

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noun
  1. (in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates.Compare fourth class.
  2. the branch of a postal service that processes and delivers parcels.
  3. the service this branch renders.

Origin of parcel post

First recorded in 1855–60
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Related Words for parcel post

transmission, distribution, consignment, shipment, drop, commitment, dispatch, conveyance, rendition, post, surrender, portage, mailing, impartment

Examples from the Web for parcel post

Historical Examples of parcel post

  • Besides, I can send back everything in the morning, anonymously, by parcel-post.

    Nobody

    Louis Joseph Vance

  • I will let you have the helmet back by parcel-post at the earliest opportunity.

    The Girl on the Boat

    Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

  • There is a parcel-post as well as a letter penny-post in Paris.

  • A few thousand men by parcel-post, and some red seals-British officers.

    The Weavers, Complete

    Gilbert Parker

  • There was also a parcel that had just come by the Paris parcel-post.

    813

    Maurice Leblanc