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parcel post



NOUN
general delivery
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Postal Department established parcel post and more than a decade before the Railway Express Agency.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2020

On this date in 1924, the first parcel post package was sent by airmail from Tucson to New York.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2017

Charles L. Wesley Sr., 100, a parcel post supervisor with the U.S.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2015

With the growth of commerce and the establishment of the travelling post and parcel post, the service became more and more successful financially.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.