parcel post

Example Sentences

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Postal Department established parcel post and more than a decade before the Railway Express Agency.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 20, 2023

Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2020

On this date in 1924, the first parcel post package was sent by airmail from Tucson to New York.

From Washington Times • Jun. 21, 2017

The catalog business was helped along by a technological innovation — parcel post, which arrived in 1913.

From New York Times • May 13, 2016

But the country merchants were much alarmed, and there were doleful prophecies of the results of a parcel post.

From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.