RE: retronym alert: whitemail

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John Cook [mailto:john -dot- cook -at- gmail -dot- com] sez:
> 
> On 1/27/06, Dick Margulis <margulisd -at- comcast -dot- net> wrote:
> > Never heard this one before, but just ran across it. 
> Looking for a word
> > to describe a letter printed on paper and stuck in an 
> envelope and don't
> > want to use the slightly snarky _snail mail_? Try 
> _whitemail._ I like it.
> 
> Perhaps we're over-thinking this.  We used to just call it 
> "mail".  ; )

I think the post-office calls it lettermail (to distinguish 
from package mail).

I think that I'd have to be writing to an extremely 
formal audience before the widely recognized - and used - 
"snail mail" would not be appropriate.

Kevin (who hasn't used a postage stamp in three years)

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