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n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the single word SnailMail. One's postal address is, correspondingly, a snail address. Derives from earlier coinage USnail (from U.S. Mail ), for which there have even been parody posters and stamps made. Also (less commonly) called P-mail , from paper mail or physical mail. Oppose email. (Note: Actual garden snails progress at about 10 meters per hour, which is about 25-50 times slower than the U.K.'s Royal Mail; comparable measurements for other countries have not yet been made. More biologically apt terms might be sloth-mail at 250 m/hr or tortoise-mail at 270 m/hr. See http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/789communication.jsp?tp=communication for details.
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