rural delivery

noun

1. a mail service in a country area, often run by contractors for the Post Office

Example Sentences

The system of postman's huts endured until the 1960s, when all rural delivery staff were provided with vans.

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It listed a rural delivery address and noted that there was no telephone in the home.

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Our mailing address was RD 2, as in “Rural Delivery.”

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It took a stake in another courier company, YTO Express, with the aim of improving its rural delivery service.

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Donna Meland is the postmaster and, when she goes, so goes the mail, with rural delivery throughout town instead of a small personal box at the store.

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