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Mail is still delivered by animals in a few remote locations that lack vehicular road access. The term " snail mail " is a derogatory retronym used to refer to the delivery of letters in contrast to the immediacy of electronic mail .
Whether historic in nature, architecturally interesting or simply quirky in their operations, we celebrate those homes of snail mail with this special-delivery missive through some of the nation's ...
Mail delivery in RI has been getting worse since the pandemic and the United States Postal Service has identified it as one of the worst in the country
So in the U.K., the Royal Mail delivers the post, while in North America both the U.S. Postal Service and Canada Post deliver the mail. The term email, short for "electronic mail", first appeared in the 1970s. [4] [5] The term snail mail is a retronym to distinguish it from the quicker email. Various dates have been given for its first use.
Lower revenue and higher interest costs helped boost the U.S. Postal Service's annual loss in fiscal 2010 to more than double that of 2009. The Postal Service said Friday that it widened its loss ...
"Personally, I think the comment about "snail mail" is a tad irrelevant and should be deleted. Seeing as it is impossible to conceive of there ever having been a delivery-by-snail system, I think clarification of the term is unnecessary. But if no one else minds, I'll leave it there. 68.210.132.153 21:42, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
Snail mail may never be the same again with the introduction of Earth Class Mail, an online service that helps you sort through your regular mail. The service offers the convenience of looking at ...
A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails , terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs . However, the common name snail is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have a coiled shell that is large enough for the animal to retract completely into.