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
Consequently the parcel post traffic increased, but it was found that the expenses of the service were not covered by the revenue derived from the parcels.
From The Development of Rates of Postage An Historical and Analytical Study by Smith, A. D.
