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2. Noun. (plural of mail) ¹

3. Noun. (usually with "''the''" US) The mail delivery system. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mails

1. mail [v] - See also: mail

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mails

Literary usage of Mails

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"tion thereafter to be paid for the transportation of mails on railroad routes, the pay per mile per annum, not to exceed certain rutes, graduated by the ..."

2. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"The exchange of mails between the two Administrations will take place between their respective Post Offices in the conventional ..."

3. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"The exchange of mails between the two Administrations will take place between their without the intermediary of the Russian Offices and on the basis fixed ..."

4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"The amount of postages on mails sent to Great Britain was ... The amount of letter postages upon mails exchanged with Great Britain was 8788,431 61 ..."

5. The Constitutional Law of the United States by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1910)
"Have the vast interests of the nation in interstate commerce, and in the transportation of the mails, no other protection than lies in the possible ..."

6. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1906)
"Letters and packets had been carried on Sundays ever since the establishment of daily mails; but it was not till 1810 that the Postmaster- General required ..."

7. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"Although the United States employs steamships, stage coaches and messengers as well as railways to handle its mails, over 86 per cent of the total weight of ..."

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