surface mail
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It came by surface mail, he said, and specified a date that had already passed; he got in touch with his local draft board and was told he could finish his term at Oxford.
From Time Magazine Archive
By schedule, the flight should take ten days; surface mail takes 28 days.
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Airlines offered to carry first-class surface mail by air for half the regular airmail rate.
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The court suggested that CAB not proceed with its plan to give surface mail to Slick, Flying Tiger and Riddle pending a court hearing on the legality of the plan.
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Rafik told Omer, “It took a month for it to arrive surface mail, which means it came on a ship. Liyana says it was obviously not a spaceship.”
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
