snail mail

Example Sentences

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John Wyatt: The reason we had a snail mail list is because a lot of people at that time didn’t have an email.

From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2026

There will be a paper trail, either email or snail mail.

From MarketWatch • Nov. 20, 2025

Hundreds of Wall Street Journal readers responded to the story—by email, in the article’s comments section, on social media and even by snail mail.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 27, 2025

And just like that, a piece of snail mail was born — and a whole practice has since unfurled around it.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025

And an impatient manager was unlikely to be willing to wait a week for the new password to arrive courtesy of snail mail.

From Underground by Dreyfus, Suelette