![]() Snail mail is also a term used in reference to penpalling. ![]() This happened not too long ago, between the 1970s to 1990s. ![]() ![]() An earlier term of the same type is surface mail, coined retrospectively after the development of airmail. 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. Freebase (5.00 / 1 vote) Rate this definition:
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