mail order
Example Sentences
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The firm said there had been a regular mail order.
From BBC
The Food and Drug Administration’s original 2000 approval of mifepristone is not in question, but the Supreme Court could roll back recent changes that made the drug easier to obtain, including via mail order.
From Seattle Times
The monthly fall was caused mainly by a sharp drop in mail orders and shopping on the internet which fell 4.5% and a drop in the sale of petrol, down 3.0%.
From Reuters
His next idea was to get the instrument sent to Nigeria through mail order, but this too proved challenging.
From BBC
During his time as a weight lifter, he worked at bag and paper companies and as a manager at Great Universal Stores, a retail and mail order catalog company.
From New York Times
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