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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>snail-mail</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="snail.html" title="snail"/><link rel="next" href="snap.html" title="snap"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">snail-mail</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="snail.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="snap.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="snail-mail"/><dt xmlns="" id="snail-mail"><b>snail-mail</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Paper mail, as opposed to electronic. Sometimes written as the
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single word ‘SnailMail’. One's postal address is,
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correspondingly, a <span class="firstterm">snail address</span>.
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Derives from earlier coinage <i class="wordasword">‘USnail</i>’
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(from ‘U.S. Mail’), for which there have even been parody
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posters and stamps made. Also (less commonly) called <span class="firstterm">P-mail</span>, from ‘paper mail’ or
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‘physical mail’. Oppose <a href="../E/email.html"><i class="glossterm">email</i></a>.</p><p>(Note: Actual garden snails progress at about 10 meters per hour,
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which is about 25-50 times slower than the U.K.'s Royal Mail; comparable
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measurements for other countries have not yet been made. More biologically
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apt terms might be “<span class="quote">sloth-mail</span>” at 250 m/hr or
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“<span class="quote">tortoise-mail</span>” at 270 m/hr. See <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/789communication.jsp?tp=communication" target="_top">http://www.newscientist.com/lastword/answers/789communication.jsp?tp=communication</a>
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