But it is not the case that postal mail has any more right to the word “mail” than email does. The relative slowness of postal mail delivery as compared to electronic mail delivery is analogized to the slowness of a snail. ![]() ![]() To disambiguate the word “mail,” the term “snail mail” was coined to refer to postal mail. If most of your mail is email, you are probably referring to email when you say “mail.” If most of your mail is postal mail, you are probably referring to postal mail when you say “mail.” When somebody says “mail” they may be referring to one or the other or even both.
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