PARCEL POST Definition & Meaning

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parcel post

(in the U.S. Postal Service) nonpreferential mail consisting of packages and parcels, weighing one pound or more sent at fourth-class rates. Compare fourth class.
the branch of a postal service that processes and delivers parcels.
the service this branch renders.

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First recorded in 1855–60

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Postal Department established parcel post and more than a decade before the Railway Express Agency.

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Forget the internet and delivery drivers, Pryce Jones used the superhighway of the day - the railway and parcel post.

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The company had already made moves to enter the parcel market, launching parcel post boxes last year.

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The surge in parcel post meant revenues beat expectations for the period.

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Hall and United States Marshal Clark, the grower had it prepared for the parcel post service.

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