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Parcel post   /pˈɑrsəl poʊst/   Listen
noun
Parcel  n.  
1.
A portion of anything taken separately; a fragment of a whole; a part. (Archaic) "A parcel of her woe." "Two parcels of the white of an egg." "The parcels of the nation adopted different forms of self-government."
2.
(Law) A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.
3.
An indiscriminate or indefinite number, measure, or quantity; a collection; a group. "This youthful parcel Of noble bachelors stand at my disposing."
4.
A number or quantity of things put up together; a bundle; a package; a packet. "'Tis like a parcel sent you by the stage."
Bill of parcels. See under 6th Bill.
Parcel office, an office where parcels are received for keeping or forwarding and delivery.
Parcel post, that department of the post office concerned with the collection and transmission of parcels; also, the transmission through the parcel post deparment; as, to send a package by parcel post. See parcel post in the vocabulary.
Part and parcel. See under Part.


Parcel post  n.  That branch of the post office having to do with the collection, transmission, and delivery of parcels (4). The British Inland Parcel Post was established in 1883. The rates in 1913, dating from 1897, were 3d. for parcels not exceeding one pound and 1d. for each additional pound up to the limit of 10 pounds. A general parcel post was established in the United States by Act of August 24, 1912, which took effect Jan. 1, 1913. At that time, parcels could not exceed 11 pounds in weight nor 72 inches in length and girth combined. Provision is made from insuring parcels, and also for sending parcels C.O.D. The rates of postage vary with the distance. See Zone, below.





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"Parcel post" Quotes from Famous Books



... Borneo, though not in the Postal Union, has entered into arrangements for the exchange of direct closed mails with the English Post Office, London, with which latter also, as well as with Singapore and India, a system of Parcel Post and of Post Office Orders has ...
— British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo • W. H. Treacher
... at once by registered parcel post to me at Waldorf Hotel, London, the morocco-bound photograph album lying on right-hand corner of my writing-desk ...
— The Rayner-Slade Amalgamation • J. S. Fletcher


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