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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[Reference(s) to this entry by made by: {email}{out-of-band}{paper-net}{snail}{voice-net}]