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Meaning of surface mail | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Mail which is transported by motor vehicle, by railway, or by seacraft, but not by aircraft.

retronym, uncountable

Equivalents

Suomi maaposti

Examples

“All Christmas cards for overseas delivery must be sealed and may travel either by surface mail at an eight-cent rate or by air mail at 12 cents.”

“[M]embers of the joint committee on communications also decided to improve postal service between Israel and Egypt to include surface mail in addition to air mail deliveries.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

See also

surface noise surface normal surface of revolution surface patch surface plasmon surface quality