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mail order

NOUN
shopping by mail
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In some cases, there is no coupon, and patients can purchase their medication from the drugmaker’s website “or through a limited set of mail order pharmacies,” according to TrumpRx.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 5, 2026

To determine whether a pharmacy service was mail order, in-person or another type, the analysis used the classification listed in the record of each prescription.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 27, 2025

Dell’s original innovation wasn’t a better PC, but a system of selling clones of IBM PCs by mail order.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 8, 2025

The show follows Susan and Jenny who reminisce over clothes, boys and music - in a time where the height of technology and fashion were phone boxes, mail order catalogues and crispy pancakes.

From BBC • Nov. 27, 2024

Columbia was then — as it is now — one of the largest mail order clubs in the world, and Wunderman had handled the company’s advertising since it was formed in the 1950s.

From "The Tipping Point" by Malcolm Gladwell



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