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registered post

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noun

  1. a Post Office service by which compensation is paid for loss or damage to mail for which a registration fee has been paid Compare recorded delivery

  2. mail sent by this service

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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The decision by the Transport Appeal Tribunal for Scotland said the LEZ fines could not be enforced as the council did not serve the fines using recorded or registered post.

From BBC Nov. 17, 2023

It’s been a registered post office since 1948.

From New York Times Aug. 20, 2016

I’ll get that out of my system; and once I send the documents by registered post I’m free for anything that crops up.”

From The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line Or, With the Allies in France by Ralph Marlow

Dear Sir,—I have sent the little article about which I have already written you and Mr. L. fully, to your address by ordinary registered post.

From The Orange-Yellow Diamond by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

I had it mailed to me here by registered post.

From The Furnace of Gold by J. N. Marchand

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