mail

     

Mail, or post, is a metho for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages, are delivered to destinations around the world. Anything sent through the postal system is called mail or post.

Trivia about mail

  • When the RMS Titanic sank in 1912, its cargo included more than 7 million pieces of this, in some 3,400 sacks
  • This flexible armor made of metal rings sounds like it came parcel post
  • Call off the dogs! & the snow, rain & heat--the folks who carry this for a living make an average of $46,970 a year
  • Despite its name, this protective armor worn by a knight was not delivered by a postman
  • A March 1845 act gave government subsidies to steamships that carried this
  • If "You've Got" this flexible armor, you know its name comes from macula, a Latin word for "mesh of a net"
  • The hero of the first book by "Little Prince" author St.-Exupery is a pilot who delivers this
  • A Presidential exhibit at the National Postal museum was called this "to the Chief"
  • One-time experiments in "express" delivery of this have included firing a guided missile from a sub in 1959