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Special delivery   /spˈɛʃəl dɪlˈɪvəri/   Listen
Special delivery

noun
1.
Mail that is delivered by a special carrier (for an additional charge).






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"Special delivery" Quotes from Famous Books



... "That special delivery letter," and Dick pointed to it. "Wasn't here last night," he went on, "for I tied Blackie to that tree before I staked him ...
— The Boy Ranchers in Camp - or The Water Fight at Diamond X • Willard F. Baker

... promptly and will be deeply glad to get it as I trust in the Lord that you will send me six of your transportation as I am willing to come in work. we will come at once when you send them to me send me a special delivery letters with them in it and I will pay you ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... people who surrender themselves without reserve to needless activities, who have a real affection for telephones, and district messengers, and the importunities of their daily mail. If they are women, they put special delivery stamps on letters which would lose nothing by a month's delay. If they are men, they exult in the thought that they can be reached by wireless telegraphy on mid-ocean. We are apt to think of these men and women as painful ...
— Americans and Others • Agnes Repplier

... in bed she wondered what he'd say in his special delivery to-morrow. He had such a ...
— This Side of Paradise • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... on only to have its progress interrupted at intervals by bustling attendants who came rushing in with telegrams, special delivery letters, and telephone messages from the Hatter, the Red Queen, the Dormouse, and many another well-beloved Wonderland character. Afterward the Walrus and the Carpenter sang a song and then, with great acclaim and a crash of the orchestra, the folding doors opened and Alice herself, ...
— Paul and the Printing Press • Sara Ware Bassett



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