rural delivery service

American  

noun

1. mail delivery operated primarily to deliver and collect mail in rural communities with no other convenient postal facilities.

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Example Sentences

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

From New York Times

Words that are thus inserted are called appositive or parenthetical expressions and are illustrated in the following: In Ohio and Kentucky enterprising individuals, evidently taking the suggestion from the popular rural delivery service, have established ice cream routes.

From Project Gutenberg

Until recently there was no rural delivery service of any kind in the latter countries.

From Project Gutenberg

The estimated postage payable at the usual rates in respect of the free matter was of course an item legitimately to be added to gross revenue; but it was doubtful whether the cost of the rural delivery service could be deducted from gross expenses, as the publishers insisted, on the ground that the service was "extraordinary."

From Project Gutenberg

Modernized handling of local mail now brings next-day delivery to 168 million people in our population centers, expanded carrier service now accommodates 9.3 million families in the growing suburbs, and 1.4 million families have been added to the rural delivery service.

From Project Gutenberg