parcel post
Americannoun
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(in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates.
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the branch of a postal service that processes and delivers parcels.
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the service this branch renders.
Etymology
Origin of parcel post
First recorded in 1855–60
Example Sentences
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Postal Department established parcel post and more than a decade before the Railway Express Agency.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023
Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.
From BBC • Dec. 24, 2020
On this date in 1924, the first parcel post package was sent by airmail from Tucson to New York.
From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2017
The catalog business was helped along by a technological innovation — parcel post, which arrived in 1913.
From New York Times • May 13, 2016
But the country merchants were much alarmed, and there were doleful prophecies of the results of a parcel post.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.
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