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
They recommend you send your parcel post today if you want it to arrive by Christmas.
From New York Times • Dec. 15, 2014
But Nathalie’s day of surprises was to bear more fruit, for about five o’clock the postman delivered a package by parcel post, a big box that had a very mysterious look about it.
From Blue Robin, the Girl Pioneer by Halsey, Rena I.
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