Example Sentences
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If early voting is fine, and if the counting process can go on for days after the polls close, then why not the arrival of absentee ballots that were marked and mailed on time?
His father spent nights sorting mail for the post office.
Late in the afternoon we were allowed aboard a mail train, only to be put off two stops farther on to make room for a food shipment.
From Literature
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The USPS, which has a mandate to deliver relatively low-cost mail across the country six days a week, loses money.
From Barron's
If you buy a ticket, you’ll receive a guidebook in the mail, which also serves as your ticket.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.