Meaning & use
snail mail
Postal mail delivered physically by the postal service, as opposed to email.
See it in a sentence
Grandma still prefers snail mail to email for sending birthday cards.
It took a week for the package to arrive by snail mail across the country.
A note on using this word
Snail mail is an informal, often humorous term coined to contrast traditional mail with the speed of email.
Words with a similar meaning
postal mail
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