Noun: snail mail
Sample Sentences
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I came home to a mailbox stuffed with snail mail.
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To send a letter by snail mail (the Postal Service), you must still compose it, and also print it out, unless you write it by hand or on a typewriter. [1993 November 9, L. R. Shannon, “Peripherals: MCI Mail Changes The Nature Of Letters”, in New York Times, retrieved 03 Apr 2014:]
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The official notice will be sent via both email and snail mail owing to legal requirements.
Nouns inflected like snail mail
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A retronym emphasizing postal mail's slowness compared to email.
Verbs referencing "snail mail"
Icelandic Nouns
sniglapóstur.