Similar terminology was used in the 1840s to contrast the already-operating postal mail with the new telegraph. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third. In some countries, services are available to print and deliver emails to those unable to receive email, like people with no computers or internet access. A term used to denote mail sent via the traditional postal service, usually to contrast that process to e-mail. Some online groups also use paper mail through regular gift or craft hot topics. mail service, postal service, mail, post - the system whereby messages are transmitted via the post office 'the mail handles billions of items every day' 'he works for the United States mail service' 'in England they call mail the post''. Snail mail penpals are those penpals that communicate with one another through the postal system, rather than on the internet which has become the more common medium. snail mail - any mail that is physically delivered by the postal service 'email is much faster than snail mail'. Snail mail is also a term used in reference to penpalling. This happened not too long ago, between the 1970s to 1990s. With stamps and hand-addressed envelopes, Taylor Schulte of Define Financial is using a personal touch to tap into the power of the inbox that long preceded Outlook and Gmail. An earlier term of the same type is surface mail, coined retrospectively after the development of airmail. All Hail, Snail Mail: Why a Hip, Young, Digitally Savvy RIA Is Sending Mailers to Prospects. It is also known, more neutrally, as paper mail, postal mail, land mail, or simply mail or post. The phrase refers to the lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt, versus the virtually instantaneous dispatch and delivery of its electronic equivalent, e-mail. Snail mail or smail -named after the snail with its slow speed-refers to letters and missives carried by conventional postal delivery services.
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