The traditional mail service offered by the postal service and other postal carriers.

A pejorative term referring to the normal 'paper' postal service.

Regular postal service mail (as opposed to electronic mail).

Are there still lines at your post office

Surface mail, as opposed to e-mail.

A normal mail, delivered with regular postal services.

Mail sent the old fashioned way: Write a letter, put it in an envelope, stick on a stamp, and drop it in the mailbox.

In the good old days before e-mail became so popular, there was another method that people used to get messages from one location to another. It went something like this - write the letter - buy a stamp - put stamp on letter - walk to the post box - post letter. Wait a day or two and hopefully it will have reached its intended destination.

Used to describe traditional postal based mail delivery using stamps and envelopes.

Refers to mail delivered by the postal service as opposed to the much quicker email.

Papers and packages sent by postal service; so called because it is much slower than e-mail.

As traditional letters are much slower than email, they are sometimes referred to as "snail mail".

the postal service. A put-down regarding its slowness relative to e-mail.

Mail delivered by any private or Govt. Postal Service.

the postal service, which is obviously very slow compared to email.

Mail sent by traditional methods such as US Postal Service.

Plain old paper mail sent through the United States Post Office. Requires stamps.

The normal postal delivery service.

Internet slang for the postal service.

A slang expression for post

The slow stuff from the post office. As opposed to faster email.

Printed matter sent by post.

A pejorative term referring to the national postal service in different countries.

The old fashioned "Royal Mail", - the post if you like.

a derisive term used by e-mail afficianados to indicate old-fashioned postal service

The letters delivered by the Post Office, and pretty useful for real things.

Tongue-in-cheek name for traditional mail service, by contrast to e-mail or electronic mail, which is much faster.

The U.S. Postal Service

Traditional or surface mail sent through postal services such as the USPS.

Slang for regular, paper mail.

Term describing traditional postal delivery as opposed to e-mail, the former taking far longer than its electronic counterpart, hence 'snail' mail.

Regular postal mail. Refers to its slowness in relation to electronic mail.

The online reference to U.S. Postal Mail.

(slang) Traditional postal (paper) mail, a reference to its slow speed compared to E-mail.

A disparaging nickname for regular postal service.

Term for paper mail sent via the postal system.

As opposed to e-mail it is referred to the normal postal service.

Mail sent via the US post office as opposed through the internet. SPAM-An inappropriate attempt to use a mailing list or USENET or other networked communications facility as if it was a broadcast medium, by sending the same message to a large of people who didn't ask for it.

A term invented after the use of e-mail became popular to identify normal postal mail and to point out the relative slowness of traditional mail.

Snail Mail - the name Internet users use to refer to paper (postal) mail because it's so slow compared to e-mail :-)

The paper mail that comes through a slot in your front door or is deposited in a box mounted outside your house or apartment.

Mail delivered by the post office, in contrast to e-mail.

A nickname for mail sent on regular paper, using an envelope and a stamp! Think, United States Post Office, FedEX. Coined because delivery of physical mail is slower than that of electronic.

A friendly term used to describe standard postal mail services.

Sending mail the old fashioned way - through the US Postal Service.

Plain old paper mail. United States Post Office. Cliff Claven delivered snail mail when he wasn't drinking with Norm at Cheers.

A somewhat derogatory term for postal mail.

Computer jargon for surface mail, which is normally slower than electronic mail.

Mail delivered by regular mail.

Write a letter. Buy a stamp, put stamp on letter. Walk to the postbox and post letter. Wait a day or two and hopefully it will have reached its intended destination...that's s n a i l - m a i l.

Web term for traditional postal mail.

Normal postal mail. So called because of its general sloth in comparison to e-mail, which is often delivered within seconds.

Traditional methods of sending mail - US Post Office.

A term for traditional land and air mail services, which take days to deliver a message, versus seconds for delivery of email.

Any mail sent through the standard mail service, such as a post office.

Not-so-flattering term used for regular, U.S. Postal Service, paper mail.

The “techie” term for letters and other such types of mail.

Mail sent through the post office, as opposed to E-mail.

The Internet term for regular paper mail, because Email can travel across the country in seconds.

Ordinary postal mail in the "real" world. So called because it takes days to arrive compared to minutes in the case of email.

A term that email users use to describe the traditional mail or post office service.

I refers to postal mail.

A colloquial term for paper mail handled by the U.S. Post Office.

The traditional postal service method of sending and receiving mail.

A normal paper mail delivered by the Post Office.

To use the regular postal service instead of e-mail or fax to send documents from one person to another.

Regular postal mail, as opposed to email. Pejorative when implying postal mail's slowness relative to email.

A term for traditional mail service that was spawned by the Internet age. Given the speed at which e-mail messages can be sent and received, regular mail moves at a snail's pace in comparison.

The standard name on the Internet for paper mail because email can travel across the country in seconds, whereas my birthday present from my parents took a week once.

Snail mail is a derogatory retronym — named after the snail with its proverbially slow speed — used to refer to letters and carried by conventional postal delivery services. The phrase refers to the lag-time between dispatch of a letter and its receipt, versus the virtually instantaneous dispatch and delivery of its electronic equivalent, e-mail.