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Snail-Mail

/snāl māl/

n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the single word 'SnailMail'. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a 'snail address'. Derives from earlier coinage 'USnail' (from 'U.S. Mail'), for which there have been parody posters and stamps made.

Oppose email.