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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



... messenger boy appeared with a special delivery letter for Miss Susan Brown, she signed the little book with a sensation that was almost fear. This—this ...
— Saturday's Child • Kathleen Norris

... impatient until the answer arrived, and was not at all surprised that it came under special delivery stamp, though Lark lifted her eyebrows quizzically, and Aunt Grace smiled suggestively, and her father looked up with sudden questioning in his face. Carol made no comment, only ran up to her room and locked the ...
— Prudence Says So • Ethel Hueston

... 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

... crept 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

... went to a restaurant, ate a hearty meal, and returned to the office rather late. On the floor lay a notification of a special delivery letter, to be had at the ...
— A Husband by Proxy • Jack Steele



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