Definition of Parcel post

1. Noun. Postal service that handles packages.

Generic synonyms: Mail

Definition of Parcel post

1. Noun. A postal service involving the shipping of parcels. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parcel Post

parboiling
parboils
parbreak
parbreaks
parbuckle
parbuckled
parbuckles
parbuckling
parc fermé
parcase
parcel
parcel bomb
parcel bombs
parcel of land
parcel out
parcel post (current term)
parceled
parceled out
parceling
parcellate
parcellated
parcellates
parcellating
parcellation
parcellations
parcelled
parcelling
parcels
parcelwise
parcenaries

Literary usage of Parcel post

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1913)
"Million a day: the progress and prospects of the parcel post. Outlook. ... parcel post extension and a table of the new public. Ind. 75: 417-20. Ag. 21. 43. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"parcel post. The generic name for a service performed by governmental agencies and comprising the collection, forwarding and delivery of packages through ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament (1906)
"(Foreign and Colonial parcel post, Costa Rica)—The Foreign and Colonial Parcel Post Amendment (No. 18) Warrant, 1905. Dated 21st December, 1905. 3. No. 951. ..."

4. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1913)
"reduction of some parcel post rates and increasing the limit of weight ... Of the parcel post he says: "While the postage rates for the new parcel post ..."

5. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"Now, it has struck me that parcel post could be so constituted as not only adding o the public convenience, but as supplying the mean* b; ..."

6. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"... which shall be made out at the despatching Office of exchange in conformity with the specimen provided for in the Union parcel post Convention. ..."

7. The Journal of Home Economics by American Home Economics Association (1915)
"HOUSEKEEPERS' DEPARTMENT WILL THE parcel post REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING? Mr. John C. Koons of the United States Post Office Department has said recently ..."

8. Treaties and Agreements with and Concerning China, 1894-1919: A Collection by John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1921)
"... which shall be made out at the despatching Office of exchange in conformity with the specimen provided for in the Union parcel post Convention. ..."

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