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.
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A part of the department's "prominent-American series," the stamp carries a 13� value so that it may circulate widely abroad as the postage on one-half ounce of international surface mail.
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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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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
