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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

This letter shall be sealed up again in its twelve silly envelopes and go by registered post to Hagan's correspondent.

From The Lost Naval Papers by Bennet Copplestone

Then she sealed the envelope, rang a bell, and told someone to despatch her letter by registered post.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

He had had no expectation of any registered letter, no idea of anything that could cause any correspondent of his to send him any communication by registered post.

From The Borough Treasurer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

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