mail-matter

This letter was signed “T. Bayleigh, Chief of Police,” and on the outside of the envelope there was a statement that it would be useless for that person to send any more mail-matter, as the post-office had been blown up.

Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

She heard it fall with a soft rustling impact upon the accumulated mail-matter in the bottom of the box.

A Lost Story 1996

She heard it fall with a soft rustling impact upon the accumulated mail-matter in the bottom of the box.

The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

But the undivided efforts of them all, with an auxiliary corps, would be demanded for the handling of eight hundred and fifty millions of letters and cards, and a greater bulk of other mail-matter, under the old plan of rates varying according to distance and number of sheets, and not weight -- stamps unknown.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

WALTER R. -- What is known as the registry system is intended to secure to valuable mail-matter in its transition through the mails the utmost security within the province of the Post Office Department.

Golden Days for Boys and Girls Volume VIII, No 25: May 21, 1887 Various

A writer who may be pressed for time finds in his mail-matter a number of personal requests from strangers.

The Life Radiant Lilian Whiting

In "half a mo '" the seals were broken, and the mail-matter shaken out on the ground.

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

On and on he went with his news, and for two hours afterwards, as we sat chewing the cud of our mail-matter, we could hear him laughing and shouting and "chiacking."

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

"Half-past eleven four weeks," the Fizzer had said; and as we returned to our mail-matter, knowing what it meant to our Fizzer, we looked anxiously to the northwest, and "hoped the showers" would come before the "return trip of the Downs."

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915

But even the demands of station books and accumulated mail-matter can be satisfied in time, and Dan reporting that he was "getting going with the bullocks," Cheon found his approval had been premature; for, to his dismay, the Maluka abandoned the fence, and began preparations for a trip

We of the Never-Never Jeannie Gunn 1915