PARCEL POST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does parcel post mean? 

• PARCEL POST (noun)
  The noun PARCEL POST has 1 sense:

1. postal service that handles packages

  Familiarity information: PARCEL POST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARCEL POST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Postal service that handles packages

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("parcel post" is a kind of...):

mail (the bags of letters and packages that are transported by the postal service)

 Context examples 

The box had been sent by parcel post from Belfast upon the morning before.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)