| 单词 | surface letter |
| 释义 | > as lemmassurface letter (e) Designating a postal service transporting mail by land or sea as opposed to by air, or the items so transported, as surface letter, surface parcel, surface post, etc. See also surface mail n. at Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1943 Times 29 Oct. 4/5 Surface letters..intended for Christmas delivery to members of the Forces..must be posted not later than Wednesday, November 10. 1951 Overseas Air Mails (G.P.O.) Feb. 1/2 The general regulations applicable to ordinary surface parcels..apply to air parcels. 1969 Times 24 Nov. 29/4 Surface post travelling round the Cape to East Africa takes about three times as long as it did before the war. 1972 S. Amer. Handbk. 149 There are air-mail and surface postal services both internally and to all parts of the world. 1992 Straits Times (Singapore) (Nexis) 14 May Air and surface letter and parcel mail services will be available to Cambodia. < as lemmas |
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