mailpiece

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#1·8h ago

(chiefly, North America) (countable) A piece of mail, that is, an item of (physical) mail; especially, an item of flat envelope form factor as contrasted with an item of package form factor.

You have 0 mailpiece(s) and 1 inbound package(s) arriving soon. [U.S. Postal Service Informed Delivery email of the 2020s]

Origin: From ; part of the business jargon of postal services and mail marketers for more than a century, but not common among the general public until the 21st century. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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