Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Materials such as letters and packages delivered by a postal system; conventional mail.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[p(hysical) mail.]
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Examples
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India's police are abandoning "P-mail" -- the carrier pigeon network that gets messages to remote stations.
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My family sent letters to an address in College Station, Tex., where they were retyped and entered into a system called "P-mail," for personal mail.
Scientific American 2009
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