postage-freeadv.adj.

1692 T. Neale Patent in Professional & Industr. Hist. Suffolk County, Mass. (1894) II. 504 State letters, which are usually carried postage free here in England.

1743 B. Franklin Proposal Promoting Useful Knowl. in Papers (1960) II. 382 Communications pass between the Secretary of the Society and the Members, Postage-free.

1797 J. Farington Diary 10 Dec. (1923) I. lxiii. 224 Letters sent postage free to ships likewise does much mischief, by affording opportunities to disseminate..seditious opinions.

1849 Hamilton's Celebrated Dict. (advt.) A list of prices of their piccolos and cottages..may be had postage free.

1887 J. J. Piatt At Holy Well 44 Can't you make Congress see Why papers through the county mail should travel postage-free?

1904 Amer. Hist. Rev. 9 827 In several of the eighteenth-century post-office statutes there were clauses providing that they [sc. Parliamentary papers] should be carried postage free.

1997 K. Caputo How to produce Successful Crafts Show vii. 63 Request a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) from each crafter who sends in an application. Then your confirmation, show details, and acceptance letter can be sent back to the crafter postage-free.

1932 Los Angeles Times 26 Dec. ii. 1/8 I have seen the corridors of the House and Senate building so chocked with postage-free mail bags that you had to worm your way through.

1954 Times 18 Nov. 5/7 The postage-free parcels may be sent up to and including December 8 for Korea and Japan and December 14 for Malaya.

1978 S. H. Sosnick Hired Hands viii. 144 We suggest providing a postage-free card (analogous to the kind an employer fills out), asking each referred worker whether he was hired.

2003 Asian Week (Nexis) 10 Sept. 4 Whether in state or local elections, votes do count. APAs should register by completing and mailing postage-free cards available at local libraries and city halls.